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Rats, Robots, And Rescue Follow Up

Posted by Hemos on from the danger-will-robinson dept.

Dr. Robin Murphy writes "An editorial comparing the proposed roborats with the rescue robots actually used at the WTC response by the Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue appeared last month in IEEE Intelligent Systems Magazine. A slightly longer version is at Crasar.org. Note that the rescue robots was in Discover Magazine's Top 100 stories of 2002."

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  1. mirror by nounderscores · · Score: 5, Informative

    for the article

    and

    for the main page

    try to go easy on poor old google.

  2. Re:Amazingly negative... by Mr_Dyqik · · Score: 3, Informative

    Rats, that have to be looked after (lab cruelty is a no-no if you don't want to recieve letter bombs), transported, modified and fitted with little backpacks to carry the communications gear.

    I think the only difference between the rats and the robots here is the motive system and the motion control system. Everything else has to be developed and built anyway, so the costs aren't going to be that different (medical sensors are more expensive than motors I guess).

    The best cooperation here would be to study the brain functions of rats in a maze, and use that to build navigation models for robots.