| Robotics and unmanned aerial vehicles have come a | | | | the inside out to the outer edge. This would provide a |
| long way ion the last five years and they are rapidly | | | | criss-crossing of territory covered so more clean-up |
| advancing. What if we could leverage all this | | | | and human discoveries could occur. Bodies wouldn't be |
| technology to assist us in first response to Natural | | | | decomposing in the soup. People could be put on small |
| Disasters? How so you ask? Well, what if we set the | | | | barges and helicopters could carry the barges to safer |
| entire disaster area up as a grid and then allow robotic | | | | ground, where there were medical personnel to |
| teams or swarms working together to do surveillance | | | | categorize the levels of injury saving a ton of time." |
| and look for those who need rescuing? Recently this | | | | Indeed and rapid response is the key to saving lives in |
| subject came up in an online think tank and one team | | | | natural disasters and it only makes sense to use our |
| thinker; Swift from Las Vegas stated: | | | | current technologies to take a bite out of the |
| "Maybe the robot teams could encircle the area and | | | | cataclysmic catastrophes which plague mankind by |
| work towards the middle and other robot teams could | | | | preventing unnecessary loss of life. So please consider |
| be dropped into the center of the area to work from | | | | all this in 2006. |