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The Lessons Learned From Emergency Robot Deployments

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

aarondubrow writes: Robin Murphy, director of Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue at Texas A&M University and one of the leading researchers in the field of disaster robotics, has used robots and UAVs for search-and-rescue missions and structural inspections during more than 20 disasters, from 9/11 to Katrina to Fukushima and the 2015 Texas floods. The Huffington Post carried a story where she describes five lessons she's learned from her robot deployments and research.

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  1. Kinda Thin by postbigbang · · Score: 2

    It's a glossy HuffPoTech article, has a few interesting examples, but is not a deep dive on the subject by anyone's estimation. This said, slashdot geeks would enjoy more depth in this area. After all, we're geeks, coders, and engineers.

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