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New book on disaster robotics
A new book by MIT's Robin Murphy documents the use and performance of tactical ground, aerial, or marine robots at 34 incidents between 2001 and 2013....
25 February 2014, by
Robohub Editors
DARPA’s Virtual Robotics Challenge a practical step forward on the long road toward disaster-response capable humanoids
Based on a media rountable discussion with DRC Program Manager Gill Pratt and CEO of the Open Source Robotics Foundation Brian Gerkey.
The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear disaster was a wake-up call...
24 July 2013, by
Hallie Siegel
DARPA Virtual Robotics Challenge results
The first competition of the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) was a software simulation of humanoid rescue work. The 6 best teams were to be allocated ATLAS robots for the next stage of the challenge, b...
27 June 2013, by
Andra Keay
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries reveals nuclear plant inspection robot MHI-MEISTeR
“Over the past few weeks, Japan has unveiled robotic exoskeletons and quadrupeds designed to work in radioactive areas, and today Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has revealed its own inspectio...
06 December 2012, by
John Payne
