Georgia and Loren have pooled their savings to create a start-up company to develop and market an idea they conceived while students together at MIT. They obtained permission to use a college lab during late night hours a few nights a week during their last term before graduating to work on the project. Then they were able to move to Loren’s parents’ garage, which they keep locked.Now they need more sophisticated resources. They have created a prototype robotic device, which they call “Phoebe.” Phoebe will aid first responders in disaster relief by sensing and locating survivors remotely in areas unsafe for humans and dogs to navigate. Phoebe’s sensors will locate living beings, scan vitals, assess level of trauma, and enable communication with a conscious survivor.Georgia and Loren have mapped out both private and public, civil, and military, applications of Phoebe, plus continued R