MUMBAI, India, May 1 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641048307 A) filed by Scms School Of Engineering And Technology, Ernakulam, Kerala, on April 16, for 'rescue robot using vlm.'

Inventor(s) include Benitto M. P; G Kamal; Amarnath P. T; P. S Fathima Nourin; and Dr. Anandhi V.

The application for the patent was published on May 1, under issue no. 18/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Disaster environments such as fire accidents hazards and structures require situational awareness and intelligent decision making to reduce human risk. The invention presents a Vision Language Model integrated autonomous rescue rover built on a hybrid edge server architecture. A...