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AMERICA'S NEW WAR Robots Aid WTC Search Effort.(INTERNET & TECHNOLOGY)
Byline: Patrick Seitz
More than a dozen robots have crawled under the rubble of the World Trade Center to help in search and recovery efforts since the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
They haven't found any survivors, but they've proved valuable in finding human remains and in steering disaster crews away from steep drops. Workers now are using robots to check structural integrity as larger areas are cleared.
Just as important, scientists and engineers learned ways to improve the machines for future search and rescue missions in other catastrophes.
"We learned a lot about future applications for the robots and areas they can be improved to be really valuable in these types of disasters," said Tom Ryden, program manager at iRobot Inc., an engineering firm that supplied some of the machines.
"The robots were not as successful down there as we had hoped or envisioned, primarily because the devastation was so tremendous."
In addition to Somerville, Mass.-based iRobot, Foster-Miller Inc. of Waltham, Mass., had robots at ground zero in New York. There were robots from the Navy and the University of South Florida. And Canadian firm Inuktun Services Ltd. shipped two mobile robot systems to the scene.
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