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Machines with microphones, remote searchers with sensors, computerized carriers with cameras.
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Put them all together and you have robots to the rescue.
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New technology is finding a new role in helping first responders save lives.
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In the wake of disasters, Robots can speed up everything from rescue to recovery.
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And this is how one woman makes a living.
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The most important thing to know.
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If you only know one thing is that disaster robots make the disaster go away faster.
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Robots can go into these places to get to where there might have been survivors.
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If I can see what I need to see, I can make good decisions to keep the responders safe.
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My name is Robin Murphy.
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I'm a professor of computer science and engineering at Texas A and M, and I work with disaster robots.
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Disaster City is one of the emergency management complexes at Texas A and M has is designed to test into train search and rescue teams on how to conduct search and rescue missions.
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We've supplied robots for 28 disasters earthquakes, Hurricane Harvey.
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We assisted with the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident.
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When we go, we bring robots and people that we've tested and practiced within our training exercises.
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One of the biggest challenges to doing work in rescue robotics is not the robotics.
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Is Theo everything else?
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You're going to a different world.
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It's really challenging to be at a disaster.
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There's, Ah, physiological and psychological impact of that.
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It really takes quite a toll.
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So you have to be really good at what you're doing.
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But my job is so incredibly fulfilling.
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It's about the science and the technology and the way it could be used for societal good.
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That's a big deal to me.
