“Challenge of Disaster Robotics” by Tadokoro
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- Challenge of Disaster Robotics
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The Great East Japan Earthquake was the first disaster in the world history where a number of robotic systems were used for disaster response and recovery. It is expected that robotics becomes an essential solution in the near future for reducing risk of disasters by improving preparedness, for minimizing damage at emergency response, and for accelerating recovery to return to normal. In this paper, main use and conditions of disaster robotics is presented at first. It explains the state of art of disaster robotics by introducing some examples of applications and development of robots by the author’s group with showing potential effectiveness in the future. It reveals the currently existing gaps in three categories: technology, society and industry. It introduces efforts for promoting the social implementation of robotics as well as expected contributions from the area of SIGGRAPH.
