Discover groundbreaking technologies designed to revolutionize disaster preparedness and rescue operations in the wake of natural disasters such as earthquakes, tornadoes, and floods. This video ...

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 ...

Tight enclosed spaces, collapsed structures and unstable rubble can prevent human responders from searching for survivors in many disaster situations. Still, researchers at Johns Hopkins University ...

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 ...

Massive structural damage in the wake of disasters like tornadoes, hurricanes, landslides, and wildfires can make recovering survivors extremely difficult. Now, a team of engineers has developed a ...

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 ...

The event, named the “2025 Joint Emergency Rescue Drill for Concurrent Multi-Type Accidents,” aimed to simulate real-world challenges faced by emergency responders. Deep Robotics deployed its X30 ...

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 ...

Even to those who study mining disasters, last week’s explosion in Soma, Turkey, was shocking. “It’s the big one,” says Patrick Foster, a mining engineer at the University of Exeter, UK. “It’s huge.” ...

Hyundai unveils robot firefighters that enter burning buildings first to protect crews and gather life saving data in extreme ...