Are robot rescuers the future of disaster response?
Each year, hundreds of natural disasters happen worldwide, and hundreds of buildings collapse because of them.?
Entering these structural remains is dangerous but necessary for search and rescue operations.?
But now, there are some new flying robots on the horizon that have been designed to help navigate collapsed buildings and collect data to determine whether they are safe for humans to enter.?
Replying on lidar sensors to analyse the geometric properties of the environment, the disaster response robots explore various rooms simultaneously, working out which rooms are safe and unsafe for the human rescue team to enter.
The team at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute (RI) are behind the technology.?
The robots are not controlled by a single base station but instead, communicate with one another to work out their surroundings and determine which paths are best to explore first. They are even capable of sharing their visited locations, preventing multiple robotics from visiting the same room repeatedly.?
While these robots have been designed to explore collapsed buildings, there could be potential for similar robots to be deployed onboard ships in the future to help locate seafarers in the event of a disaster at sea.?
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