Podcast: The Role
of Robots in
Rescue Operations

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Dr. Robin Murphy (pictured in photo above), director of Texas A&M University’s Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue (CRASAR) and a foremost expert on robotic research, describes the growing role of robots in search-and-rescue missions, particularly in the aftermath of the tsunami and earthquake in Japan. Around the world, robots are increasingly performing the life-saving jobs too dangerous for human search-and-rescue teams.

Dr. Murphy received a B.M.E. in mechanical engineering, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science in 1980, 1989, and 1992, respectively, from Georgia Tech, where she was a Rockwell International Doctoral Fellow. She is the Raytheon Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M and an IEEE Fellow. She has over 100 publications including the best-selling textbook, Introduction to AI Robotics (MIT Press 2000), and was awarded the Al Aube Outstanding Contributor award by the AUVSI Foundation in 2008.

Read ASME.org's article: Rescue Robots Aid Japanese Recovery

Duration: 6 min 41 sec