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Uganda bombing
Woke up this morning to see the death toll in Uganda is up to 74 according to CNN. Terrorism is particularly ugly because it severely reduces the time responders have to get to someone before they die and creates a different set of challenges. Surviving a building collapse is easier– if you don’t die right [...]
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Hurricane Alex
What a relief that Hurricane Alex was relatively minor, what I heard a resident on the news call “a normal one.” The two types of robots that fit these types of disasters are unmanned aerial vehicles and marine vehicles. A hurricane is a geographically distributed event- lots of homes demolished but commercial structures are evacuated [...]
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Raspadskaya Mine Disaster
Another mine disaster, the death toll now at 32 with 58 trapped or missing. No sign of robots, but what is coming over the wires suggests that robots would be useful– if intrinsically safe, the robots could penetrate the mine to “see” through the hazy conditions to give rescuers an understanding of the situation and [...]
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CRASAR not involved with robots at BP Oil Spill
We’re getting lots of queries– the oil spill is out of our league (pun with Jules Verne intended), the deep sea ROVs are highly specialized.
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Qinghai Quake and robots
What is it with disasters? They’re coming fast and furious. Here’s the 411 on robots at the China quake.
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The Qinghai quake is the latest of the series of tragedies. Prof. Bin Li at the Shenyang Institute of Automation and an active member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Safety Security Rescue Robots, contacted the Chinese [...]
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