Search and rescue (SAR) operations pose grave risk to human lives, both to victims and those sent in to save them. This bomb disposal robot system is currently servicing military and law enforcement units in more than 41 countries. Sometimes, survivors are left unconscious under layers of rubble and slowly fade away as SAR teams try to locate them. Orolia’s McMurdo in May said it would deploy its Search and Rescue Satellite Aided Tracking (SARSAT) system to a leading Southeast Asia search and rescue authority. Debates continue to rage on the relation between robotic applications and job automation, but there’s likely to be less push-back against robotic applications in search and rescue.

Source: Huffington Post November 23, 2017 22:30 UTC