A Tennessee Highway Patrol strike team and National Park Service rangers completed a challenging overnight rescue in the ...

Engineers developed a ping-pong-playing robot that quickly estimates the speed and trajectory of an incoming ball and precisely hits it to a desired location on the table.

Andrew McIntyre talks on-the-water kit, pulley/rope compatibility, rope grabs, webbing and victim medical treatment, so ...

A 7-year-old from New Jersey came face-to-face and toe-to-toe with WWE superstars on an episode of NBC's "George to the ...

About 60 people were evacuated from a Florida condo building as a precautionary measure after cracks were discovered in a ...

Chinese team says their microrobot, with a design inspired by Lego, could be used in complex environments like disaster ...

Paws & Peers, the nation’s largest school therapy dog program, is full of good boys—and girls! What’s more, these ...

The demands on search-and-rescue teams are expected to increase, but experts say some teams lack protections, volunteers and funds.

Trees, vegetation, rocks, unpredictable terrain and the lack of clearly defined roads—or roads at all—won't stop an autonomous, off-road vehicle developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon ...

Chinese robotics firm Unitree has unveiled new quadruped fire rescue robots built for firefighting and emergency response.

Kurt “CyberGuy" Knutsson talks about a soft, vine-like robot called SPROUT that aids safe survivor rescues in collapsed ...

This has included design considerations that can be particular ... (Note: The Exfil isn’t a replacement for a VHF radio.) When rescue team members are properly outfitted, as many as four ...