Robots...assemble! [search-and-rescue operations]

Abstract

WALKING OVER THE ruins of the Italian mountain town of Amatrice after the violent earthquake of 2016, Dr Ivana Kruiff-Korbayova spotted a little red shoe. “Hardly anything was left standing,” she remembers. “And around the corner there were grapes and tomatoes ripening in a tiny garden — but was anyone left to harvest them?”