Science news articles about 'search and rescue'

  • Surgeons Save Rescue Dog With Pacemaker

    Surgeons at the University of Missouri College of Veterinary Medicine installed a pacemaker in a search-and-rescue dog's heart.
  • Tests check out rescue robots' life-saving vision

    ... visual capability humans need to drive the device, search for victims and access general hazard conditions. ... -time color video images from urban search-and-rescue robots reflect the type of sensors or ...
  • Halifax rescue dog to be cloned: U.S. company

    A Canadian search-and-rescue dog that helped recover the last survivor from the World Trade Center attack on Sept. 11th, 2001 is set to be cloned after winning a contest to be ...
  • Computers determine when to stop searches at sea

    ... a new computer model to predict how long someone will survive when lost at sea, which will in turn determine when a search and rescue operation may be stopped. The Search and Rescue Survival Model is ...
  • Rescue robot exercise brings together robots, developers, first responders

    ... of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate to develop performance standards for robots for use in urban search and rescue missions. Urban search and rescue robots assist first ...
  • Computers Determine When To Stop Searches For Missing People At Sea

    British researchers are developing a new computer model to predict how long someone will survive when lost at sea, which will in turn determine when a search and rescue operation may be stopped.
  • Send in the Rescue Robots

    ... -- disasters like these make the natural environment both unnavigable and dangerous for human search-and-rescue teams. That's when it's time for robots to come to our rescue. Earthquakes are a ...
  • 9/11 Rescue Dog Cloned

    ... life through cloning. Trakr, a German shepherd who assisted with search and rescue in the rubble of Ground Zero, died in April. However, Trakr's DNA was saved, and BioArts International ...
  • Robocup 2009: Rescue Robots Save The (Some)Day

    ... where humans fear to tread, like rescue missions following natural disasters.   So ... research and development in the field of rescue robotics. Robots for search and rescue missions, the efficient co- ...
  • Search and rescue aid wins navigation prize

    ... to José Caro Ramón for his use of satellite navigation to increase the effectiveness of rescue dogs searching for survivors after natural disasters. The ESA prize went to Tim Springer for his idea of ...
  • Emergency links: NIST identifies 'sweet spot' for radios in tunnels

    ... Remley notes that the results may help design wireless systems that improve control of, for example, search and rescue robots in subways. Some handheld radios used by emergency responders for voice ...
  • A biomimetic jumping microrobot

    ... could be fitted out with tiny sensors to explore rough, inaccessible terrain or to aid in search and rescue operations. "This biomimetic form of jumping is unique because it allows micro-robots to ...
  • Making a Hopping Robot

    ... in a robotics class—how to build a robot that can hop like a pogo stick, roll on wheels, and walk up stairs—has grown into a concept that could one day help with search-and-rescue missions. read more
  • Robo Hop

    ... lost in the woods or being rescued by a swarm of mini robotic grasshoppers. But it’s search-and-rescue situations that a Swiss robotics lab had in mind when they built the world’s smallest hopping ...
  • Engineers: Wireless crib monitor keeps tabs on baby's breathing

    ... technology. His best-realized idea so far: a search-and-rescue robot equipped with the Doppler system to determine the presence of living people in structures damaged by earthquakes or ...

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