Summary of 47 Known Disaster Robot Deployments 2001-2015

Posted by admin on Dec 01, 2015 at 10:45 am America/Chicago

  This is a 15 minute talk I gave (virtually) at the World Engineering Conference and United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk and Reduction in Japan. It was a talk for a general audience and while there is nothing new, it does provides

• an introduction to disaster robotics,
• how many times and where robots have been used,
• what they have been used for (and what they could be used for), why they aren't used more frequently, and
• my recommendations.

Much of the material is captured in detail in Disaster Robotics, MIT Press.