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Autonomous Robotics in Hazardous Environments: Applications in Healthcare, Industry and Disaster Response

Author(s) Yichao Rui
Country United States
Abstract Autonomous robotics is increasingly transforming operations in environments where conventional human intervention is constrained by extreme physical, biological, chemical or structural hazards. Advances in artificial intelligence, computer vision, edge computing, sensor fusion, autonomous navigation and human–robot collaboration have enabled robots to perform inspection, monitoring, transportation, search, rescue and healthcare-support tasks with reduced direct exposure of personnel to dangerous conditions. This paper examines the emerging role of autonomous robotic systems across three major domains: healthcare, hazardous industrial environments and disaster response. A conceptual framework is developed around multimodal perception, autonomous decision-making, adaptive navigation, real-time communication and human supervisory control. Applications including infectious-disease isolation, nuclear and chemical facilities, mining, offshore infrastructure, fire response, collapsed buildings and humanitarian emergencies are discussed. Particular attention is given to heterogeneous robotic teams involving unmanned ground vehicles, aerial drones, underwater robots and robotic manipulators. The paper also analyses challenges associated with uncertain environments, degraded communication, limited battery capacity, sensor failure, explainability, cybersecurity, safety certification and ethical responsibility. The analysis suggests that future hazardous-environment robotics will increasingly rely on distributed intelligence, multi-robot coordination, digital twins, edge AI and resilient human–robot collaboration. Rather than completely replacing human responders, autonomous robots are likely to function as intelligent extensions of human capabilities, performing high-risk tasks while humans retain supervisory, ethical and strategic control.
Keywords Autonomous Robotics, Hazardous Environments, Disaster Response, Healthcare Robotics, Industrial Robotics, Search and Rescue, Artificial Intelligence, Sensor Fusion, Human–Robot Collaboration, Edge Computing.E
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Published In Volume 7, Issue 4, July-August 2025
Published On 2025-08-10
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