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.

Will robots soon be tools used by urban search and rescue teams? “I feel strongly that robots will be a valuable asset in the near future for search and rescue teams from around the world,” said Texas ...

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 ...

Researchers observed how cockroaches navigate confined spaces and used what they found to build a palm-sized robot they say could crawl through rubble at disaster sites to find survivors.

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One snake's ability to shimmy up slippery sand dunes could inspire new technologies for robots that could perform search and rescue missions, carry out inspections of hazardous wastes and even ...

Meet ANYmal, a four-legged dog-like robot designed by researchers at eth Zürich in Switzerland, in hopes of using such robots ...

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.

How do you see the field of search and rescue robots going forward? There’s no real funding for these types of ground robots.