Jerusalem Report

Into the danger zone

A team of BGU scientists is taking part in a US challenge to develop search and rescue robots.

There are robots with a similar job to Wall-E
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A team of scientists from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) in Beersheba, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, and Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan has been chosen as the only non- American team to participate in a US robotics competition aimed at saving lives.

The competition is held by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), established in 1958, to explore problem-solving in search and rescue operations after man-made and natural disasters, such as at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan, where radiation made the environment too dangerous for humans.

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