"The state of the art search-and-rescue robotics is actually quite limited, " he told the BBC.
It could play an important role in cold climates for search-and-rescue, scientific exploration and expedition support.
In the hours after the explosion, the Coast Guard was focused on a search-and-rescue operation.
It suggested the creatures might one day be used to aid search-and-rescue operations and surveillance.
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Monday's meeting focused on the search-and-rescue response, and Tuesday's will focus on the New Orleans evacuation.
These search-and-rescue exercises are to be repeated, probably at the beginning of next year.
As search-and-rescue teams checked the conditions were safe enough for a diving team, fire-fighters combed the riverbank.
These include, notably: rapid movement of Marines and their materiel, special operations forces and combat search-and-rescue personnel.
Last year it launched a search-and-rescue unit, Borstar, to criss-cross the region looking for immigrants in trouble.
Lifeboats from Rock and Padstow, coastguard rescue teams, and search-and-rescue helicopters were all called to help the group.
In the scrabble to find more helicopters, it has taken over six Merlin search-and-rescue helicopters ordered by Denmark.
The number of search-and-rescue missions that are launched is down by more than 70% and deaths by 15%.
The RAF had been in the area since Friday night mounting its largest search-and-rescue operation for 40 years.
Though they originally focused on evacuations, late Monday afternoon they began search-and-rescue operations and anti-looting patrols, he said.
Members of Veterinary Medical Assistance teams have given medical aid to search-and-rescue dogs.
The Coast Guard said it has "diminished search-and-rescue capabilities" as Category 1 Hurricane Sandy batters the U.S. East Coast.
The Chapel St Leonards' Coastguard rescue team and Skegness inshore lifeboat were dispatched with support from an RAF search-and-rescue helicopter.
Stu Willig of Florida Task Force 2, one of eight urban search-and-rescue teams on the scene from across the country.
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FEMA, the Coast Guard and the Department of Defense have sent resources to help with the search-and-rescue effort, he said.
The crew of a Coast Guard search-and-rescue plane watched as the Cessna made what appeared to be a soft landing, Edwards said.
After the explosion on the drilling rig, it began with an aggressive search-and-rescue effort to evacuate 115 people, including three badly injured.
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There was similar elation among the search-and-rescue team, which included dozens of volunteer sheriff deputies who surveyed the dangerous terrain looking for signs of life.
Coast Guard crews re-create search-and-rescue missions, while thousands of sailors and the tourists drawn in their wake pour into city bars and onto the streets.
Jeremy Lewis said Wednesday morning that emergency workers were sifting through the rubble in one final neighborhood before concluding search-and-rescue efforts by midday Wednesday.
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The National Guard is trained with the purpose of protecting the nation fighting forest fires and providing hurricane relief, riot control, and search-and-rescue.
But his search-and-rescue training "gave him a purpose, " Gray said, adding that Riley has become an important partner in his efforts as a firefighter.
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"But in these conditions, it's very problematic, " Parker said, adding that a timely deployment of search-and-rescue aircraft and ships gives the missing a chance.
The first would allow American forces to use civilian airports and harbours in Japan and to rely on Japanese minesweeping and search-and-rescue operations at sea.
The mission tonight is to rendezvous with a U.S. search-and-rescue helicopter.
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