Three Palestinian teenagers have built a robot device that can help locate people trapped underneath the rubble of collapsed buildings.

The group from Rafah, the Gaza strip, equipped the car-shaped device with a Wi-Fi remote control function.

Rama Ibrahim, his brother Ahmed, and their classmate Yousef Aqil, built the device and are all secondary school students.

The robot is mounted with a camera and alarm that notifies the operators.

RESTRICTION SUMMARY: Rafah - 16 June 2022. Three Palestinian teenagers invent a smart rescue robot that can help locate people trapped under the rubble of collapsed buildings in Rafah in the southern of Gaza strip.

0.1 SOUNDBITE (in Arabic) Rama Ibrahim
0.2 SOUNDBITE (in Arabic) Youssef Aqel

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The miniature car-shaped device, equipped with Wi-Fi remote control function, was developed by Rama Ibrahim, his brother Ahmed, and their classmate Yousef Aqil, all of whom are secondary school students, following months of research and experiment.

Mounted with a camera and an alarm, the rescue robot can be operated through a cell phone application, and notify the rescue team with beeps and cellphone push notifications, the students told .

"We came up with the idea to invent such a robot after the end of the recent conflict between Hamas and Israel in the Gaza Strip last year.

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