robot dog – UF Innovate https://innovate.research.ufl.edu Building business on innovation Tue, 12 Aug 2025 04:18:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://innovate.research.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/favicon-blue_1.png robot dog – UF Innovate https://innovate.research.ufl.edu 32 32 How a Robot Developed at UF Could Help First Responders See Through Walls During Rescues https://innovate.research.ufl.edu/robot-dog-uf/ Thu, 22 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://scaddev1.com/robot-dog-uf/ A University of Florida research team is working on a robot dog that has the ability to enter an enclosed space, scan it, and provide humans with a visual of what’s inside, an application that could lessen dangerous situations for first responders. 

The team of graduate and undergraduate students is led by Eric Jing Du, Ph.D., a professor of civil and coastal engineering at the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering. Du said the inspiration behind the robotic dog was learning that firefighters often get trapped in dangerous places because of the unfamiliarity of the environments during rescues. 

The dogs have the ability to scan a room in three seconds and quickly build a 3D model, which is sent to augmented reality goggles and allows the user to see inside a room before walking into it. 

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