Disaster Robot

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Title

Disaster Robot

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Radio New Zealand

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Radio New Zealand YouTube

Description

The threat of being buried in rubble in an earthquake is a real and horrifying prospect, and trying to rescue trapped people from collapsed buildings is a dangerous task. To help in such situations, Victoria University engineer Dale Carnegie is developing a hierarchy of small, autonomous 'rubble robots'. In Our Changing World on 17 October 2010 he tells Alison Ballance how the 'grandmother' will deploy all-terrain 'daughter' robots, that enter such sites and in their turn deploy expendable mo...

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Video

Date created

13 October 2010

URL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoc7szjA6Uw&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Related subjects

disaster / robot / Our Changing World

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