search and rescue

Stanford researchers develop a new type of soft, growing robot

Stanford University News 25 Jul 2017

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 ...

First TRADR EU FP7 Joint Exercise (TJEx)

Zoe Fragoulopoulou 30 Oct 2014

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...

Research Group from University of Zurich wins KUKA Innovation Award

NCCR Robotics 10 Jun 2014

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 ...

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

Hallie Siegel 02 May 2014

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...

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

Ludovic Daler and Hallie Siegel 26 Jul 2013

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...

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

Hallie Siegel 29 Apr 2013

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...

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

John Payne 11 Feb 2013

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...