Among these is the British company QinetiQ, based in Farnborough, which makes robots for HAZMAT and search-and-rescue, and the Talon family of robots that helped sift through rubble after 9/11 at ...

Researchers from Singapore have developed a new machine to automatically turn cockroaches into cyborgs in 68 seconds flat.

And for many years, we already work here in Switzerland with search-and-rescue teams directly to really see what is needed to actually make our robots useful for them. I think on one side is ...

Scientists from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore are working to develop cyborg cockroaches that could be used to save lives.

According to military supplier ADS, there are around seven types of applications for such robots. Among these are transports ...

Security robots often interact with humans or are deployed in response to a disaster. In search-and-rescue operations, security robots are typically deployed in novel and high-stress situations where ...

Miniature robots provide unprecedented access to confined environments and show promising potential for novel applications such as search-and-rescue and high-value asset inspection. The capability of ...

An all-terrain quadruped robot carries an adult across rough terrain. File photo: Courtesy of an interviewee who requested ...

Fitzgerald says cyborg search and rescue beetles or cockroaches might be able to help in disaster situations by finding and reporting the location of survivors and delivering lifesaving drugs to them ...

Fitzgerald says cyborg search and rescue beetles or cockroaches might ... He’s not the only roboticist creating robots from living organisms. Academics at the California Institute of Technology ...

The robots, which sense and respond to the environment ... He hopes to create an army of insect-machine search and rescue workers. "We see a future where after an urban disaster like an earthquake ...