Kammala wannan magana: Murphy ya fara bincike a kan bala'i robotics a 1995, motsa da Oklahoma City tashin bama-bamai. 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 shigar da tsarin ƙasa, iska, da na ruwa mara matuki a cikin bala'o'i 27 ciki har da Hurricane Katrina, wanda aka ɗauka a matsayin farkon amfani da ƙananan tsarin iska mara matuki, da Fukishima Daiichi hadarin nukiliya (2011), da
Tsunami na Tōhoku (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.