BRINC secured investment led by Index Ventures, with Motorola Solutions participating, to boost technology and production.
Vine robot from MIT can squeeze through rubble to help emergency responders
The joint research team from MIT and Notre Dame created the Soft Pathfinding Robotic Observation Unit, or SPROUT.
Nokia and Swisscom Broadcast to deploy drones-as-a-service network
In addition to increasing first responders’ safety, drone support resource optimization can help to save the lives of those involved in incidents, Nokia said.
Robots at the Tepco Nuclear Facility in Fukushima, Japan
Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Facility – Before Twin Disasters How did it come to be that Japan’s nuclear power authority didn’t have any emergency robots ready to assist with damage and control? Why were they caught unprepared? In the days after a giant tsunami knocked out Fukushima Daiichi’s cooling system, the prime minister’s office and…