SPROUT, a vine-like rescue robot, consists of an inflatable airtight fabric tube that extends from a fixed base. Inflated ...

The department of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University have developed a snake-like robot that is able to to squeeze through tight gaps which could prove to be invaluable in search and ...

When major disasters hit and structures collapse, people can become trapped under rubble. Extricating victims from these ...

When buildings collapse during disasters like earthquakes or explosions, finding and rescuing trapped people can be extremely ...

A joint research team from MIT and Notre Dame created the Soft Pathfinding Robotic Observation Unit, or SPROUT.

He has met refugee families living in South Korea and visited refugees in camps in Uganda, Kenya and Liberia. In 2012, a giant inflatable Robot Taekwon V was displayed for two weeks outside our ...

This project will be on developing a walking robot that uses inflatable legs. Since the legs are inflatable, the pressure in the legs can be regulated and in this way, the legs' stiffness can be ...

A plus-sized, inflatable robot whose sole purpose is to look after people, Baymax would to do almost anything to help 14-year-old robotics genius Hiro Hamada (he's an orphan, obviously ...