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A new project at Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Institute combines two of my favorite things, dogs and robots, to build an animal-machine rescue system that could conceivably improve a trapped victim’s survival odds after an earthquake or some other disaster. It would work by strapping a snakebot to a trained search-and-rescue dog, Saint Bernard collar-keg-style, and letting the dog loose to find survivors.

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