search and rescue

Stanford researchers develop a new type of soft, growing robot

By Taylor Kubota, Stanford News Service Imagine rescuers searching for people in the rubble of a collapsed building. Instead of digging through the debris by hand or having dogs sniff for signs of ...

25 July 2017, by Stanford University News

First TRADR EU FP7 Joint Exercise (TJEx)

ALCOR Lab members describe their experience. From September 23rd to October 2nd the first TRADR Joint Exercise (TJEx) took place at the Tremora hospital (ex American hospital of Calambrone) near Pi...

30 October 2014, by Zoe Fragoulopoulou

Research Group from University of Zurich wins KUKA Innovation Award

The team collect their award at the Automatica fair in Munich, June 2014. Four researchers from Davide Scaramuzza’s Robotics and Perception Group at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, have won ...

10 June 2014, by NCCR Robotics

Underwater ROV aids in investigation, searches for victims in South Korean ferry tragedy

The search and rescue team involved in the recent South Korean ferry tragedy has deployed a remotely-operated underwater robot to help in the investigation and hopeful search for possible survivors in...

02 May 2014, by Hallie Siegel

Multi-purpose wings allow flying robot to walk across rough terrain

The Deployable Air Land Exploration Robot (DALER) uses its own wings to crawl and roll over a variety of terrains. Using a self-adjusting structure to transform its wings into rotating arms, the robo...

26 July 2013, by Ludovic Daler and Hallie Siegel

Snake robot teams up with search-and-rescue dog in US | BBC News

The search-and-rescue test involved sending the dogs through a concrete pipe into the "collapsed building" at an emergency-response training centre. They had been trained to bark when they found a po...

29 April 2013, by Hallie Siegel

NERVE, New England Robotics Validation and Experimentation Center, opens Feb. 12th

NERVE, the New England Robotics Validation and Experimentation Center at UMass Lowell, when it opens tomorrow, will be one of three such facilities in the United States. Incorporating elements of NIST...

11 February 2013, by John Payne