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Latest Updates in Robotics & AI Testing

📢 Competitions and Conferences

• 🎤 Senate Robotics Demo Day – Robotics Legislation Demonstration
• 🚀 RoboCupRescue – AI-Powered Search & Rescue
• 🔥 Wildfire Identification, Inspection, and Suppression – Thermal Drone Testing & Mitigation
• 🦿 ICRA 2023: Quadruped Robot Challenge – Autonomy & Mobility Testing
• 🤖 IROS 2024: Quadruped Robot Challenges – Collaborative Autonomy
• 🎯 Texas Public Safety Robotics Summit – Test Methods & Public Safety Robotics
• 🔍 UTAC Project Report – sUAS Testing at Guardian Centers

📺 Media & Press

• 📰 Drones in Disaster Zones – 3D Mapping for First Responders (NIST Blog)
• 🎥 ICRA 2023 Quadruped Challenge: Semi-Finals Video
• 🛰️ Drone Certification Training – Homeland Security Today
• 🏢 Robots Break Ground – NIST Facility Expansion (Montgomery Community Media)
• 🤝 Collaborating Facilities – NIST Robotics Testing Partners
• 🧪 Standardizing Public Safety Drones – APSA and AIRT with NIST

Stay tuned for upcoming publications and live demos, including:

• 📘 Evaluating 3D Indoor Mapping Capabilities of UAS for First Responder Applications (upcoming)
• 📘 Outdoor sUAS Drop Tests: Assessing Dynamics, Velocity and Impact Forces of Falling Drones (upcoming)