Texas A&M’s Robin Murphy has deployed robots at 29 disasters, including three building collapses, two mine disasters and an earthquake as director of the Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue.

The week prior to Thanksgiving, approximately 35 robot manufacturers from across the United States and international representatives from Japan, Germany and Canada tested the latest in robot ...

Search-and-rescue Robots Practice Emergency Response To Simulated Earthquake Date: September 1, 2003 Source: National Science Foundation Summary: An earthquake has just laid waste to a small town ...

Discover the incredible agility of ANYmal, a cutting-edge, four-legged robotic marvel developed by the innovative minds at ...

PORTLAND, Ore. ” Microminiaturization has made possible swarms of autonomous robots using nothing more than off-the-shelf parts. But concentrating their wireless chatter and getting them to cooperate ...

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For example, these limbless robots could be used during search-and-rescue missions, since the slithery machines can crawl into a collapsed building and search for people trapped inside without ...

That was the scenario facing a group of 14 researchers and a crew of search-and-rescue robots as they embarked on an arduous 26-hour field exercise in Lebanon, Indiana, alongside professional ...

But so far no search and rescue teams anywhere have found anyone alive with a ground robot. What are the challenges for using ground robots inside rubble? The big problem is seeing inside the rubble.

PORTLAND, Ore. Microminiaturization has made possible swarms of autonomous robots using nothing more than off-the-shelf parts. But concentrating their wireless chatter and getting them to cooperate to ...

What is your ideal search and rescue robot? I’d like someone to develop a robot ferret. Ferrets are kind of snakey-looking mammals. But they have legs, small little legs.