At Robotics Trends’ Robotics Summit Conference and Exposition, which I believe is the world’s first full-day robotics virtual event, Robin Murphy, director of the Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue (and professor of computer science at Texas A&M), delivered an excellent keynote presentation that included a number of interesting conclusions regarding search and rescue robots. Many of her conclusions first appeared counterintuitive. For example, she related that tethers, as in tethered mobile robots, provide more advantages than disadvantages.
Tethering would seem to be a practice that should be avoided if possible. Tethers can become caught on objects and the distance the robot can travel is limited…
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