Tuhia he haere tonu mō tēnei wāhanga - I tīmata a Murphy ki te rangahau i te pūkaha mō ngā aitua i te tau 1995, nā te whakaekenga o Oklahoma City. Ko Murphy te kaiwhakahaere o te Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue (CRASASR) mai i te 2002 ki te 2018, a inaianei ko ia te perehitini tuarua. Na roto i te CRASAR i uru ia ki te aitua o te 9/11 World Trade Center (2001), i whakaarohia ko te whakamahinga tuatahi o nga robots mo te waahanga urupare ohorere o te aitua. Mai i taua wa kua awhina ia ki te whakauru i nga punaha whenua, rererangi, me nga punaha moana kaore i whakahaeretia ki nga aitua e 27 tae atu ki te Hurricane Katrina, e kiia ana ko te whakamahinga tuatahi o nga punaha rererangi kaore i whakahaeretia, te aitua karihi o Fukishima Daiichi (2011), te Tōhoku
tsunami (2011), te raru o te Refugee Boat Syrian (2016), me te Hurricane Harvey (2017). I tuhia e ia te kuputuhi matua Disaster Robotics, MIT Press, i te tau 2014.