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Tsunami and Robotics

I'm sure as everybody else, you also terrified by the devistating effects of recent tsunami. Some of the professionals such as medical doctors, nurses, forensic experts, soldiers, pilots, civil engineers etc. etc. already helped and continiue to work help relife efforts for the tsunami victims.

I would like to argue and ask your opinions as robotics scientist, engineers, hobbiest, gurus etc. what REAL contribution a robotisist would be doing to help those people?

I saw on the net, that there are "robot rescue" competitions etc. but they seems to be organized to satisfy academic curiosity rather than any REAL work.

Is there any REAL thing that a robotisist can offer to tsunami, earthquake, land slide etc victims?

Regards,

Note : Please reply ONLY if you want to contribute with honest, positive and constuctive opinions/ideas/plans/...

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<Tsunami>
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"Fighting landslides is dangerous work, but help from space is on its way. Recent testing in Italy has shown that the four-tonne Roboclimber can secure slopes without endangering human lives, thanks to innovations from Europe's space programmes."

Giant robot helps prevent landslides, 12 Jan 2005

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J Wolfgang Goerlich

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jwgoerlich

These disasters are always happening in one form or another continuously, why pick on this one? The application of robots may add to the stress and confusion already surrounding devistated victims. It is evident that most societies are not ready to welcome them into their homes even when things are going fine! Let`s see now, Robo-pets and Washing machines are already common place as melding into the home scenario and are totally useless in an earthquake. It seems that everything that isn`t autonomous is still acceptable after a catastrophy because these things don`t neccessarily require the ordered and structured living environment normally encountered day to day. So is it robots we are really after here or just usefull machines which can be put to use in a chaotic environment? No robot built yet, with all the research and development that science has provided can be of use here.

I`ll be positive about one aspect though; Where the environment is less hostile and emergency forces have provided adequate facilities, robotics could emerge in re-establishing vital communications to monitor the progress of the situation for example.

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Reply to
Mr Clarke

Donate money.

earthquake,

Reply to
Airy R.Bean

I agree, donate Money to a respectable charity that is helping the victims. I donated to Oxfam.

Reply to
Shawn Brown

Yes, it is obvious that money donation is one of the most effective way of helping. And offcourse all sensistive people must have been donated to respectable charity organizations already.

I want to find out is that can robotisist, similar to medical personnel, offer any other additional help? Isn't there any REAL, usefull outcome from the robotic research to be used to help fellow humanbeings?

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<Tsunami>

Yes....definitely.....donate_HALF_ of the extremely high salary that you earn as the result of being employed in avant-garde research.

Reply to
Airy R.Bean

Develop a nearly indestructible, small tethered robot to send down in to unstable and dangerous debris piles with a light, camera, an intercom, and a way to dispense water / electrolytes to trapped victims.

Or as everybody else says, donate money. :-)

Andy

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Andy Baker

Remotely Operated Vehicles have been used.

An example is at

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On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 21:14:28 GMT, "Andy Baker" wrotg:

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Vince Busto

duct tape a bottle of Gator-Aide to it and you've got a winner.

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Andy Baker

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