What if your heart stopped and a flying robot landed to shock you back to life before ambulances could arrive? A USA Today investigation a few years ago found that, of the 250,000 fatal card... Read more
For protection the suit incorporates tungsten shielding which reduces radiation exposure by about 50 percent Since the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in March 2011, the Japanese governme... Read more
Darpa officials said they were hoping for international participation In the event of another disaster at a nuclear power plant, the first responders may not be humans but robots. They may n... Read more
A new kind of sensor could warn emergency workers when carbon filters in the respirators they wear to avoid inhaling toxic fumes have become dangerously saturated. In a recent issue of the j... Read more