Nagaoka University of Technology (NUT), a UNAI member institution in Japan serving as the Hub for Sustainable Development Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, has been a world-leading ...

When a magnitude 7.7 earthquake in Myanmar led to a skyscraper collapse in Bangkok this spring, search and rescue teams—human, canine, and machine—struggled with dangerous debris, thick dust, and ...

In a simulated natural disaster, robotic drones from the University of Maryland’s RoboScout Team arrived first, scanning the area for survivors. They beamed patients’ locations to robot dogs and ...

Researchers have developed a unified, stateless control framework that enables autonomous search and rescue robots to safely navigate dynamic, cluttered environments. By combining a heuristic motion ...

This summer, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the research arm of the Pentagon, is hosting a challenge that seeks to address the limitations of the human response to natural and ...

Earlier this week, 23 robots from all over the world competed in Pomona, Calif., for a $2 million prize in the DARPA Robotics Challenge. And thousands of humans watched as the machines showed off ...

A skilled team of engineers at the University of Washington has invented a system of telerobotics, enabling use for disaster relief efforts. This technology would help people in need more effectively ...

Tiny robots face a brutal problem. The smaller they get, the harder it becomes to power them, guide them and keep them useful ...

Engineers developing space exploration robots drew inspiration from the common squirrel for their latest cutting-edge bot design, which they say could also help in search and rescue missions during ...

Dax Robotics has unveiled the Qiji T1000, a quadruped “robot horse” designed to carry up to 1,000 kilograms across difficult ...