ISLAMABAD – The Ministry of Information Technology (MoIT) are developingintelligent Mobile Robots to deal with disasters, firefighting andemergency situations.
The mobile robots will be equipped with modern sensors and communicationdevices having AI and computational capabilities to mitigate disastersituations like terrorism, industrial fires, floods, and earthquakes.
The robots will exhibit features like detection, extinguishing the fire andother intelligent behaviors like object detection, finding a target andcollision avoidance. Moreover, the robots will also have autonomous andmanual control.
The robots due to their small size will be effective to extinguish fire intricky areas where rescue operations can’t be easily conducted. During suchhazardous conditions, IMR can perform critical operations and ultimatelysave lives.
The ministry is working on the project through the National ICT Researchand Development Fund and Karachi Institute of Economics and Technology isworking as a principal investigator organization. As per details, the costof this on-going project is around Rs14.68 million. The IMRs will be builtin-house and will also be available for local industries, hospitals, andoffices where they will act as a workforce in the respective departments.
The industrial sector of Pakistan is huge having multiple industrial unitsranging from cement manufacturing, dying units, steel, glass, paints andmany others in which heavy machinery is utilized and in such casesaccidents are frequent which sometimes take lives. In order to mitigatesuch unfortunate events, IMR’s will be helpful.