Using autonomous robots with robust intelligence to enhance response
Synthesizing information into useful resources.
CHALLENGE:
First responders are challenged in dynamic situations, where information comes at different times and from different sources. For this reason, verbal reports and orders can be easily subjected to misinterpretation. Further hampering efforts to mitigate disasters is the location of an event, adverse weather, and environmental variables (e.g., buildings, smoke, debris).
SOLUTION:
Robots will join soldiers and first responders on future battlefields and disaster areas to execute missions with greater precision, tighter time lines and fewer casualties. Airborne and ground robots are able to locate the injured, safely escort medics and deliver treatment. This characterizes the benefits expected from human-robot teams; valuable resources like medicine are rapidly allocated without endangering the lives of first responders. The net effect is human-robot teaming and command-and-control systems that acquire visual data and distribute imagery for situational awareness and information dominance.
POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS:
Robots can augment human teams in executing missions with greater precision, tighter time lines and fewer casualties. Missions such as search-and-rescue, bomb damage assessment, forward area reconnaissance, target localization and border patrol are envisioned.