article_snippet: In a collapsed building, sound is the best way to find survivors,’ said Alper Bozkurt, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at North Carolina State University.
article_snippet: Scientists could one day be used in emergency situations to detect survivors .
article_snippet: emergency workers ‘worked well’ in lab tests and the experts have developed technology that can be used as an ‘invisible fence’ to keep the biobots in a certain area such as a disaster area, researchers at North Carolina State University announced at the IEEE Sensors 2014 conference in Valencia, Spain.
article_snippet: A previous study led by Dr Edgar Lobaton, who is also at North Carolina State University, showed that biobots can be used to map a disaster area.
article_snippet: Dr Lobaton and Professor Bozkurt plan on merging Dr Lobaton and Professor Bozkurt research to both map disaster areas and pinpoint survivors.