Homeland Security: Robots to the Rescue
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The Department of Homeland Security is training emergency responders to use Urban Search & Rescue robots.
The robots are deployed to find victims and rendering a collapsed structure safe for human helpers. This scenario will require robots to traverse wreckage and debris to map the scene, look in windows to locate victims, find hazardous leaks, take samples of substances and identify tanker placards describing their contents. Read more
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