Rescue Robot

[Peter Harrison]

Today I read how the Army have been asked to put together a robot to
go into the Mine to search for survivors.

I realise that short of having something ready to roll right now there
is little we can do to help. However, the Christchurch earthuake and
now this mine accident focus my attention on a lack of robotic tools
for this kind of mission. Having been involved in robotic for the last
few years I thought it might be worthwhile building rescue robots that
can go into dangerous environments with explosive gases in a safe way.

Is anyone else doing robots projects?

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[Tim McNamara]

Post by Peter Harrison
Today I read how the Army have been asked to put together a robot to
go into the Mine to search for survivors.
I realise that short of having something ready to roll right now there
is little we can do to help. However, the Christchurch earthuake and
now this mine accident focus my attention on a lack of robotic tools
for this kind of mission. Having been involved in robotic for the last
few years I thought it might be worthwhile building rescue robots that
can go into dangerous environments with explosive gases in a safe way.
Is anyone else doing robots projects?

VUW has been researching robotics for earthquake response for a feq
years[1].

[1] http://ecs.victoria.ac.nz/Groups/Mechatronics/SAR
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[Robin Paulson]

Post by Peter Harrison
I realise that short of having something ready to roll right now there
is little we can do to help. However, the Christchurch earthuake and
now this mine accident focus my attention on a lack of robotic tools
for this kind of mission. Having been involved in robotic for the last
few years I thought it might be worthwhile building rescue robots that
can go into dangerous environments with explosive gases in a safe way.
Is anyone else doing robots projects?

plenty of people doing that in the arduino/mindkits group:
http://www.meetup.com/MindKits/

[Nick Rout]

Post by Robin Paulson

Post by Peter Harrison
I realise that short of having something ready to roll right now there
is little we can do to help. However, the Christchurch earthuake and
now this mine accident focus my attention on a lack of robotic tools
for this kind of mission. Having been involved in robotic for the last
few years I thought it might be worthwhile building rescue robots that
can go into dangerous environments with explosive gases in a safe way.
Is anyone else doing robots projects?

http://www.meetup.com/MindKits/

There are a number of penguinistas on the chch robotics mailing list:

http://lists.ourshack.com/mailman/listinfo/chchrobotics

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[Robin Paulson]

Post by Robin Paulson

Post by Peter Harrison
Is anyone else doing robots projects?

http://www.meetup.com/MindKits/

oh, and of course there are some robotics types at Tangleball, the
newly-launched Auckland Creative Space:

http://tangleball.co.nz

[Vincent Ardern]

Vex Robotics (High school and University age competition) is very strong in NZ.

vexrobotics.co.nz
vexrobotics.com

Vincent

Post by Robin Paulson

Post by Robin Paulson

Post by Peter Harrison
Is anyone else doing robots projects?

http://www.meetup.com/MindKits/

oh, and of course there are some robotics types at Tangleball, the
http://tangleball.co.nz
--
robin
http://tangleball.co.nz/
http://bumblepuppy.org/blog/
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