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Rescue robot tests to offer responders high-tech help

06-08-2007 · EurekAlert!

NIST engineers are organizing the fourth in a series of Response Robot Evaluation Exercises for urban search and rescue responders to be held on June 18-22, 2007, at the "Disaster City" training facility in College Station, Texas.

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