Mayor Adams says a robotic dog and a drone were used to assess the situation following the parking garage collapse in Lower Manhattan.
He has touted advances that are now being used by the
, and on Tuesday afternoon similar tech was deployed when a serious situation unfolded in Lower Manhattan., which the mayor said killed one person and injured five others, the city sent in a robotic dog and a drone to assess the situation. "I do want to point out that thank God we had the robotic dog that was able to go in the building. This is ideally what we talk about -- not sending a human being inside a building that was unstable. We were also able to use the technology of a drone to give a real visualization of what's happening in this building," Adams said.
"At this time this building is completely unstable ... we do not want to send in someone until we can make sure the building is shored up. But using the necessary technology we're able to get a clear view of what's happening inside the building, for the most part, and do whatever we can to see if there are any more victims," he added.Chief of Fire Operations John Esposito explained some of the technology's practical capabilities.
"Our Command Tactical Unit, Robotics Unit, when they go, either the robot dog or the drones, they're able to stream the video directly to our phones, directly to our command center, we're able to share that," Esposito said."The great part of that is we're able to put these, use the technology to get information and reconnaissance without putting our firefighters' lives and our first responders' lives at risk.
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