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"Search and rescue" is the standard excuse anytime someone invents a nifty new robot. I would love to know how many robots are actually really used in search and rescue.

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To be more precise, "search and rescue" is a euphemism for "warfare".

‘Search and destroy.’

“We’ll use it to find people in building rubble” really begs the question of why the building is rubble in the first place

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