The current state and future outlook of rescue robotics

• Published in: Journal of field robotics Vol. 36; no. 7; pp. 1171 - 1191
• Main Authors: Delmerico, Jeffrey, Mintchev, Stefano, Giusti, Alessandro, Gromov, Boris, Melo, Kamilo, Horvat, Tomislav, Cadena, Cesar, Hutter, Marco, Ijspeert, Auke, Floreano, Dario, Gambardella, Luca M., Siegwart, Roland, Scaramuzza, Davide
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hoboken Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.10.2019
• Subjects: Disaster recovery; Emergency response; Evacuations & rescues; extreme environments; Remotely operated vehicles; Robot control; Robotics; search and rescue robotics

Robotic technologies, whether they are remotely operated vehicles, autonomous agents, assistive devices, or novel control interfaces, offer many promising capabilities for deployment in real‐world environments. Postdisaster scenarios are a particularly relevant target for applying such technologies,...