The 8.1-magnitude earthquake in Nepal lately caught the attention of all over the world. Rescue work is the most crucial and the most difficult after every strong earthquake. In the rescue work and after-calamity investigation, two kinds of earthquake rescue robots - ruins search-and-rescue robots and unmanned rotorcrafts, developed by Shenyang Institute of Automation of Chinese Academy of Sciences, played a significant role.

This article was edited and translated from《走近地震救援机器人》, source: People's Daily, author: Wu Yuehui.