We certainly learned after Hurricane Katrina how difficult it was to find trapped people who had climbed up into their attics to get away from the floodwaters in New Orleans. Today luckily we have advanced systems like infrared sensors, scanners and these can be mounted on Helicopters and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles UAVs. But what if we took our technological know how to a higher level?

Currently DARPA has some new radarscopes and sensors, which can be used on robots. What if we sent these units in immediately following a natural disaster? This topic recently came up in an online think tank when Swift from Las Vegas stated;