Rescue Robot Tests To Offer Responders High-Tech Help

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An urban search and rescue robot moves across a rubble pile in a recent NISTDHS exercise. The next rescue robot exercise will be held on June 18-22 2007 at Texas AMs Disaster City training facility. Credit: NIST
An urban search and rescue robot moves across a rubble pile in a recent NIST/DHS exercise. The next rescue robot exercise will be held on June 18-22, 2007, at Texas A&M’s “Disaster City” training facility. Credit: NIST

National Institute of Standards and Technology engineers are organizing the fourth in a series of Response Robot Evaluation Exercises for urban search and rescue (US&R) responders to be held on June 18-22, 2007, at Texas A&M’s “Disaster City” training facility in College Station, Texas.


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