Sentences with phrase «searching rubble»

Tomaselli asserts, «I am constantly searching this rubble to find things worth saving, and this inquiry into utopia / dystopia - framed by artifice but motivated by the desire for the «real» and the transformative - has turned out to be the primary subject of my work.»

Occasionally the robot will indicate that he wants to try something like searching rubble for trapped humans, putting out a building fire, or chasing away a lightning storm.

Seven of the center's robots searched the rubble of the World Trade Center in the days after the September 11 attacks.

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In the aftermath of the attack, he returned to the firehouse where he'd worked in Little Italy and spent several days helping search through the rubble for survivors.

At least 332 people were killed in Iran and Iraq when a magnitude 7.3 earthquake jolted the region on Sunday, state media in the two countries said, and rescuers were searching for dozens trapped under rubble in the mountainous area.

Whether it's Daniel's bizarre dream of the winged beast and a prince named Michael who «goes by the Book,» or Mark's «Little Apocalypse,» written after a generation of suffering and perhaps over the rubble of the temple, predictions of the end times and the second coming demand a soul - searching kind of honesty.

Syrians search for victims under the rubble of a destroyed building that attacked by Syrian government forces airstrikes, in Ghouta, a suburb of Damascus, Syria

Had it not been for the tireless efforts of hopeful search crews digging through the rubble against all odds, none of them would have survived.

Also, 13 years later, volunteers who helped search for survivors and clean up rubble at the World Trade Center following 9/11 received some good news.

Firemen take a break from searching through the rubble of the World Trade Centre (George W Bush Llibrary)

Officials searched through rubble the day after an East Village gas explosion leveled an Apartment building on Second Avenue and E. 7th St. DNAinfo / Ben Fractenberg

When last seen, town Republican chairman Dave O'Halloran was rummaging around the rubble of the fire - destroyed Rainbow Diner on Route 209 searching for his political future.

People who survive the collapses must do their own search and rescue for family members, friends, and neighbors still trapped in the rubble.

Because the robot body changes shape in response to its surroundings, it can slip through narrow crevices to search for survivors in the rubble left by an earthquake or bombing, he said.

Then, five years ago, his search gained momentum after six sandstone building blocks of Egyptian design turned up beneath the overburden of earthquake rubble.

Rescue workers, using microphones and fiber - optic cable to probe rubble, frantically are searching for trapped victims.

In fact, these types of adhesives are already being used in climbing robots that can search through earthquake rubble in search of survivors.

Pre-dawn emergency workers searched feverishly for survivors in the rubble of homes, primary schools and an hospital in an Oklahoma City suburb ravaged by a massive Monday afternoon tornado feared to have killed up to 91 people and injured well over 200 residents.

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (Reuters)- Rescue workers searched for survivors on Monday in the rubble left by a wave of tornadoes that ripped through the south - central United States a day earlier, killing at least 16 people in Arkansas, Oklahoma and Iowa.

SHANGHAI, China — Rescue workers are using microphones and fiber - optic cable to probe rubble, searching for people trapped in Monday's devastating earthquake in Sichuan Province.

The sensitivity level can be changed to match the task, from picking delicate fruit to searching for a person buried in rubble.

«The sensitivity level can be tailored to the robot arm's task, from picking fruit to searching through rubble»

Boots, gloves, even hard hats may be required when searching through rubble.

A $ 500,000 privately funded five - year study by the University of Pennsylvania is providing comprehensive medical work - ups for 131 dogs that searched the toxic rubble for survivors.

NEW YORK — Fourteen search - and - rescue dogs have died since their exposure to toxic rubble from the Sept. 11 terrorist attack — including eight from cancer, according to a study by the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine.

This facility, where rescued dogs will learn to be rescuers, will be the first - of - its - kind in America and will provide a training ground for search and rescue teams throughout the nation to work with their canines in an environment that simulates real disaster conditions such as a train wreck, an earthquake zone and a rubble pile.

After the Twin Towers fell on 9/11, hundreds of talented canine teams were integral to search and rescue attempts, searching through 16 acres of rubble where the World Trade Center once stood, to find tragic remains, or those lucky enough still to be alive.

Immediately following the attacks of 9/11, nearly 100 trained search dogs and their handlers — enlisted from 18 U.S. states — were deployed by FEMA to join the rescue efforts at the World Trade Center in New York and at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. Alongside firemen and other teams sorting through the debris, the dogs worked tirelessly around the clock to locate survivors in the rubble — images of which deeply intrigued Dutch photographer Charlotte Dumas as the events unfolded in the news media.

Typically these dogs work in small teams and can be trained specifically for rubble, water, and avalanche searches.

«Come tomorrow morning we will hit the road, as soon as the «all clear» is given, in search of the injured and those trapped in the rubble,» said Skerrit.

Yet, most of this love was through either single player or split screen and it took me until 2010 to get online... at which point I played Call of Duty Black Ops multi-player until the building around had degraded to a post-apocalyptic rubble pile, complete with roaming mutated wild gerbils searching for scraps of pizza in the folds of my chair - sore ridden skin.

Supplies are limited, so you must begin by clearing out piles of rubble and searching the rooms for medical supplies, food or other parts and pieces to use in making beds, a water collection system, a place to cook your meals or weapons.

The main game modes have players search for Newt, set up defenses, survive Xenomorph waves, attack hives and more to score some big points, and the mini-game is also pretty cool as well, having the squad race through tunnels with M577 APC while avoiding rubble.