Adoption of Robots for Disasters
Murphy, Robin R. / Gandudi, Vignesh B. M. / Adams, Justin
This publication describes how robot innovations are adopted during a disaster using the COVID-19 response, both as a natural experiment and a case study. While the reports do not provide full details to ascertain gaps in specific algorithms or specific subsystems, the size and the pervasiveness of the data permits examination of three questions, namely: how the need for a robot arises during a disaster, whether those needs are met with existi...