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- Chile and tsunami: what robots can do
  The news this morning of the Chilean earthquake continues to highlight the possibilities for robots to help in the response and recovery.
  Certainly the big surveillance UAVs such as the Predator and Global Hawk variants can give a “big picture” overview, but don’t forget that search and rescue is largely done by small teams working independently [...]
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- Living with Robots screened at Sundance
  Honda’s short-film documentary, Living with Robots, was screened at the Sundance Film Festival on Jan 22, 2010. Rescue robot footage from CRASAR and director Robin Murphy appear throughout the documentary
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- Why New Technologies Rarely Show Up at Disasters
  I’m getting a lot of questions about why wasn’t CRASAR, or any robotic technology, in Haiti. Interestingly, some of the questions indicate anger at agencies and while I thought CRASAR could have been of use in saving lives and learned important lessons for science, I’d like to defend the decision not to invite us.
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- Haiti: Prayers and best wishes
  The Haiti earthquake is looking grim. At this point CRASAR has not been contacted about assisting and is unlikely to be. The two USAID teams, CA-TF2 and VA-TF1 , are being deployed. Reports suggest that there was a hospital collapse. In these large geographically distributed disasters, aerial assets (manned or unmanned) are helpful in establishing [...]
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