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In a Disaster, Robots Go Where Humans Cannot

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Sensors let robots assess a disaster scene and detect trapped people.

Hank Hogan, Contributing Editor

Disaster City, a 52-acre training facility in College Station, Texas, was the setting for a mock-disaster exercise in June. Train wrecks, collapsed buildings and piles of rubble with realistic signatures sprinkled throughout to help rescuers locate and identify the “victims” all had been planned as part of a drill to school emergency responders in how to use the latest robotics. The exercise was the fourth sponsored by the Science and Technology Standards Program of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Another objective of these staged events — managed by the National Institute of...Read full article

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    Published: September 2007
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