In search and rescue situations, dogs are ideal for navigating rough and unstable terrain, and using their extraordinary olfactory senses to locate trapped people. Snake robots are ideal for getting through very small gaps and exploring areas under the rubble pile. Now a team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University's Biorobotics Lab teamed up with Ryerson University's Network-Centric Applied Research Team (NCART) Lab have teamed up to test using the two tools together.
This kind of dangerous work is just exactly what robots are around for, and by giving them rides on trained disaster dogs, they can get exactly where they need to go quickly and safely. Watch a dog deploying a tethered snake robot in a disaster training exercise in the video below:
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