Earthquake disaster mitigation requires rapid and efficient search and rescue of survivors.
Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) workers have 48 hours to find trapped survivors in a …

Robotics have important applications in the field of disaster medical rescue. The deployment
of urban rescue robots at the earthquake site can help shorten response time, improve …

The tragedy of September 11th 2001 at the World Trade Center is likely to propel search-
and-rescue robotics into its next stage, just as the Kobe earthquake and the Oklahoma City …

Intelligent rescue systems with high information and robot technology have been expected
to mitigate disaster damages, especially in Japan after the 1995 Hanshin-Awaji earthquake …

Rescue Robotics presents the most significant findings of the DDT Project on robots and
systems for urban search and rescue. This project was launched by the Japanese …

Since the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and Kobe, Japan, earthquake, robotics researchers
have been considering search and rescue as a humanitarian research domain. The recent …

In this paper, we report our activities in the real disaster areas damaged by the Great
Eastern Japan Earthquake. From March 18–21, 2011, we tried to apply a ground rescue …

A remote controlled robot for collecting information in disasters, eg earthquakes, is one of
most effective applications of robots, because it is very dangerous for human beings to …

The use of disaster robots in the aftermath of the Great East Japan earthquake serves as an
excellent example of international cooperation between agencies, municipalities …

Abstract The Great Hanshin-Awaji (Kobe) Earthquake killed more than 6,000 on Jan. 17,
1995. Many people barely escaped from the debris and actively saved buried lives. Rescue …