Possible Uses for Robots for Search and Rescue Missions

The throw-bot is, “the most versatile, robust, stealthy and easy-to-deploy robot system in the world.” It can survive drops from about fifteen feet and can endure throws of over fifty feet. It functions at a stunning twenty decibels, which is quieter than a whisper. The robot has an infrared optical system which provides a clear recording, making it easy to see in a dark environment. The throw-bot can transmit footage up to one-hundred feet indoors and up to three-hundred feet outdoors and has recently been modified to be able to hear audio. The throw-bot is a great tool that serves its purpose and can be used in many different situations.

The idea of Intelligent robots has been around for years. With artificial intelligence on the rise that may not be science fiction for too much longer. Robots have played a big role in how communication, entertainment, and general information are viewed. Robots have also changed the workforce, with jobs being taken by robots for more efficiency and fewer mistakes. Is this really good for people or is it just sending them from the assembly line to the unemployment line? Although it seems like robots are out to steal our jobs, they might create some too. Robots already play a large role in our lives and that isn't going to change. Although robots are often portrayed as humanoids, phones and computers are robots that control our lives and they are getting more and more advanced every day.

As people come and go, ensuring the safety in parks is a struggle without a monitoring assistant. In this way, the robot serves as an aid that will operate by it's subject through any park, so the people who visit these parks can benefit off of the use of technology. With the attached features such as a GPS of the park, walkie talkie, cup holder, luminous wheels, extra batteries, and many other essential precautions, it will help users in multifarious manners. The Roamer is a remotely operated system allowing it to follow a specific

Disasters like earthquakes, tornados, and hurricanes happen almost everyday. It takes help from first responders to get those in the disaster area to safety. But this puts the lives of who perform rescue missions at risk as well. In the November 2014 issue of Popular Mechanics magazine, Davey Alba’s article, “A Robot for Any Disaster,” is unsuccessful in convincing the readers of this idea through the limited use of pathos and redundant use of logos.

Are we truly enlightened in the advancement of what technology has given for all the branches in the army? From science fiction movies such as The Terminator and I, Robot, robotics has come pretty far in the military industry from building prosthetic arms for the injured veterans to unmanned aircraft that can do surveillance without getting caught under the radar of enemy territory. Military robotics have stretched beyond the previous potential of what it originally supposes to accomplish; the military even has robotics where little drones that are controlled by a remote can camouflage in any terrain. Even though critics and politicians claim military robotics cause more destruction and can be hacked into their databases by a single binary code, the military needs to continue implementing more robotic soldiers, drones, vehicles and aircraft because they are such an asset in reducing casualties, superior abilities to humans that cannot be done manually by soldiers easily, and being work-efficient as well as cost-efficient. Without these robotics from the military, the heroes of our nation have a lower chance of making it back home to their families knowing they may not live to see them unless they have serious assistance from technology.

Robotic technology has enabled the US military to use autonomous robots (or unmanned systems, UMS) in modern warfare. In the war with Iraq, the US military sent 12000 ground robots at the end of 2008 (P. W. Singer). One of the most popular robots used in Iraq is the iRobot Packbot, an unmanned ground vehicle, which is capable of detecting and destroying improvised explosive devices. Exploiting robots in warfare can save lives of many human soldiers. Moreover, robots are faster, have longer endurance, high precision and immunity to chemical and biological weapons (Ronald Arkin).In the National Defense Act of 2001 the U.S. Congress, obviously impressed by the potential of robots saving lives on the battlefield, established

National USAR Response System Canine Search Teams play a critical role during structural collapse incidents, and many more disasters. The canines locate survivors, using their incredible sense of smell to detect live human scent, even from a survivor buried deep in rubble. FEMA USAR canine handlers are comprised of civilians, firefighters, and police department members (Canine's Role in Urban Search & Rescue, 2015). The most common breeds of dogs that are used for search and rescues teams are Labrador Retrievers, German Shepherd, Belgian Malinois, Border Collies and Golden Retrievers. Canines with a high toy drive are used for urban search and rescue. Which means it is basically a game of hide and seek for the dog. This is how the handlers

Over the years, manned missions into space have gotten increasingly more expensive. Nowadays, the costs of manned space travel has gotten up to around $10,000 per pound to send anything to space (Dunbar), large amounts of fuel for the round-trip (JamesRandiFoundation), and enough supplies (and even some extras incase of emergency) to care for the crew (Dunbar). By utilizing robots rather than humans in future space missions, you can cut costs drastically simply by just having a one way trip with just the robot rather than needing to take all the aforementioned supplies and fuel. Also, by equipping a robot with solar panels, the amount of work said robot will be able

In our project, we are trying to provide an embedded wireless system by using the Army base stations can monitor the health of soldiers using wireless body area sensor networks such as temperature sensor, heart beat sensor, etc. Base stations can also track the location of soldiers by using Global positioning system (GPS)

Have you ever imagined having robots in war? The use of military robots is necessary for humanity. It is problem because we are losing many lives in war. The problem affects the soldiers in war and the soldier’s family as well. We should invent military robots that are used for fighting in war.

There is no doubt that robots will be our future. They have already taken jobs of thousands of people and will continue to take jobs with new advancements everyday. The reason robots are taking these jobs is because they are cheaper than paying humans that can make mistakes and fatigue. Both blue collar and white collar jobs are under attack, with manufacturing in factories and microprocessors or other artificial intelligence in hospitals, law firms, and laboratories (Lyons). The only fields that are really safe from being replaced are jobs that take creativity and emotion such as artists, filmmakers, and therapists. With new technology, they are becoming more and more common and have also been used in fields of work

One of the most prominent technology-related debates is that of robots. It is a multifaceted discussion that ranges from a fear of artificial intelligence takeovers to the boundless benefits it can bring society. Continuous scientific innovations have been the norm for centuries, and there seems to be no technological slowdown. In fact, in an interview I conducted, Dr. Mahmoud El Nokali, an electrical engineering professor at the University of Pittsburgh, stated that in the next decade, “the key ingredients of technology will be artificial intelligence” and “big data ” (El Nokali). With these impending robotic advancements, the most relevant and concerning issue is the economic effect of this phenomenon. Specifically, with every technological

There have been numerous incidents in which the tactical robot would have been key to saving life. On July of 2009, an individual entered a business in Jeffersontown’s Industrial Park and held two individuals hostage at gun point. The 10 hour standoff resulted in the armed individual committing suicide in front of his hostages. Some of the difficulties with the incident was lack of effective communication between the armed suspect and law enforcement and a detailed floor plan of the location. A tactical robot could have safely approached the situation and allowed negotiations with the armed individual and come to a peaceful resolution. A robot would have also enabled an detailed view of the location to enhance law enforcement with a viable

However, due to large number of robots, and various environments that the group of robots may operate in, as well as changes in the number of robots in a group for different tasks, developing an effective algorithm for swarm robotics systems seems to be a great challenge. Stirling and Floreano (2010) proposed a system in which some robots act as communication relays, while other robots operate as normal troops. This method used no or low-bandwidth communication, and showed good scalability performance. However, the use of this methods is only limited to small area operation, as the range between communication relays and the robots are limited. Wireless LAN is a solution to this limitation, as it support long range as well as high-bandwidth communication, however this is proved to be a costly solution, as every robot in the system must have a WLAN module to support this method (Brambilla et al.,

Now-a-days, it became very difficult to know that an accident has occurred and to locate the position where it has happened. It’s very difficult for the lives of victims until anyone noticed and informed it to the ambulance or to any hospital and if it occurs in remote areas there will be no hope to survive. To overcome these, GSM and GPS technologies are used. The GPS based vehicle accident identification module contains a vibrating sensor and a GPS modem connected to the microcontroller. When an accident occurs, the vibration sensor gives the signal to the microcontroller, which sends the information to the LCD display through GSM network. The vehicle is tracked for every five minutes using GPS