New York mayor Eric Adams praised the robotic dog deployed by emergency services to assess a parking garage collapse that occurred on Tuesday, 18 April.<br /><br />At least one person has died and five were injured in the collapse at the four-storey facility in lower Manhattan.<br /><br />"I do want to point out that thank God we had the robotic dog that was able to go in the building. This is ideally what we talk about -- not sending a human being inside a building that was unstable," Mr Adams said.<br /><br />The mayor also confirmed emergency services used a drone to survey the damage.