The Fraunhofer FKIE uses a lidar laser to quickly create virtual 3D environments in hazardous situations.

Robot systems explore unfamiliar terrain, buildings or danger zones with cameras. In the 3D-InAus project, researchers from ...

In a disaster such as a chemical plant incident or flooding, emergency services need ways to quickly get an overview of the ...

Robots use cameras to investigate foreign terrain, buildings, and danger zones. In the 3D-InAus project, researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Communication, Information Processing, and ...

In disaster response scenarios, emergency services often face the challenge of assessing dangerous environments without ...

The centerpiece of the hardware is a LiDAR laser mounted on a turntable. A rotating mirror is built into the LiDAR module. It can scan an area made up of 16 vertical sections, or “slices,” ten times ...

Fraunhofer researchers have developed a robot that overcomes the obstacles faced by traditional camera-wielding robots by ...