 Bringing these robots into real-world use and being able to utilize them in all situations is so close to becoming a reality.“We're just inches away” Murphy says, “a lot of software is just waiting for the hardware to catch up”.After the earthquakes in l’Aquila, Haiti and Japan, the European Commission confirmed that there exists a large discrepancy between (robotic) technology which is developed in laboratory and the use of such technology on the terrain for Search and Rescue (SAR) operations and crisis management.