E&T Magazine: Finders keepers - how search and rescue robots are evolving

Although humans and highly trained dogs will always be critical in search-and-rescue operations, robots are being developed – taking inspiration from the natural world – that are helping rescue teams save lives.

Walking over the ruins of the Italian mountain town of Amatrice after the violent earthquake of 2016, Dr Ivana Kruiff-Korbayova spotted a little red shoe. “Hardly anything was left standing,” she remembers. “And around the corner there were grapes and tomatoes ripening in a tiny garden – but was anyone left to harvest them?”

This was a fascinating trip to a Swiss robotics lab

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