Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Murphy ya fara bincike kan robobi na bala'i a 1995, wanda bam din Oklahoma City ya motsa shi. Murphy shine darektan Cibiyar Bincike da Ceto ta Robot (CRASASR) daga 2002 zuwa 2018, kuma yanzu yana aiki a matsayin mataimakin shugaban. Ta hanyar CRASAR ta shiga cikin bala'in Cibiyar Ciniki ta Duniya na 9/11 (2001), wanda aka yi la'akari da farkon amfani da mutummutumi don matakin ba da agajin gaggawa na bala'i. Tun daga wannan lokacin ta taimaka wajen saka tsarin ƙasa, iska, da na ruwa mara matuki a cikin bala'o'i 27 ciki har da Guguwar Katrina, wanda aka ɗauka a matsayin farkon amfani da ƙananan tsarin iska mara matuki, da hadarin nukiliyar Fukishima Daiichi (2011), da Tōhoku
Tsunami (2011), Rikicin 'Yan Gudun Hijira na Jirgin Siriya (2016), da Guguwar Harvey (2017). Ta rubuta rubutun rubutun Robotics na bala'i, MIT Press, a cikin 2014.