Signal 2: Superdogs will save your life

Haoming Yang
Civic Analytics 2018
2 min readSep 18, 2018

When a catastrophe happens, people are expecting their heroes. However, the smoggy room on big fire, torrential water flood and collapsed building are too dangerous for our human heroes to come. It is a tragedy for having rescue people died when the purpose of the rescue is to save people’s life.

Now, the super dog — Spotmini will strut its stuff on the stage of emergency response. The machine quadruped can operate up to 90 minutes between charges and is capable of being driven semi-autonomously, but also able to navigate fully autonomously using its series of cameras. It can climb the stairs, open the door, pick up specific items and convey material.

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Different systems can be developed to mount to SpotMini for different applications. For instance, it can be equipped with water spray so that it can rush into the big fire with a water protection cover; It can dive into the water to search people without worrying about being washed away; It can also deliver relief goods by adopting fully automation algorithms.

Superdogs (Spotmini) can evolve into a more advanced version to make the rescue more efficient.

Reference:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf7IEVTDjng

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