Click here to learn more. We all know that canines are amazing
when it comes to search-and-rescue operations, but what would
happen if you paired a highly trained rescue dog with a robotic
assistant? Researchers recently found out when Carnegie Mellon
University's Biorobotics Lab teamed up with Ryerson University's
Network-Centric Applied Research Team (NCART) Lab to conduct
such an experiment with a German Shepherd rescue dog named
Freitag. According to an article in IEEE Spectrum, the
scientists developed a snakebot that can be operated by Freitag.
Once the dog reaches a spot in a disaster zone that's either too
tight for him to get through or unsafe to access, he can bark to
deploy the robot snake, which is affixed with a camera that can
send live video feed to human rescuers above ground. Watch this
video to see a demo of how CARD (Canine Assisted Robot
Deployment) works from the snakebot's perspective. Like this
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