Challenges and Opportunities of Emerging Humanitarian Technologies in Sustainable Development Space

Rapid advancement in the areas of sensors, robotics, and artificial intelligence has created a large demand for research in the areas of emerging humanitarian technologies focusing sustainable development goals. Examples of some innovative research works will be presented those have been carried out recently in the areas of health, energy, and disaster management to offer cost effective efficient products. One greatest advantage of such innovations is their accessibility to under privileged population, irrespective of their location, gender, financial capability, and level of education. However, the main challenge here is to offer satisfactory performance with low cost implementation using very simple control interface. Moreover, the proposed design for the humanitarian application must offer the sustainable development.