r/interestingasfuck • u/Red_Lotus_Alchemist • 2d ago

/r/all A Chinese earthquake rescue team deployed drones to light up the night and aid search and rescue operations after the devastating 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Myanmar.

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u/lizzieassist 2d ago

It's so good that technology is advancing and helping people

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u/aykcak 2d ago

There is so much technology that can be thrown onto this problem. Most of the people who die of earthquakes die AFTER the earthquake. Depending on the size of the building hundreds of alive people might be trapped.

I wish we had something like hundreds of snake robots that crawl through the rubble to access people, provide them with supplied air and communication. It would be possible to map an entire debris field several floors deep, determine which sections can be removed without harming anyone so clearing teams can quickly attack and so provide access to rescuing people who are alive.

We have robots who do some of these things but not at scale and specialized for something like an earthquake. We definitely should