Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue (CRASAR), Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA

A compendium of our major responses starting with the 9/11 World Trade Center and going through the Texas floods (2015). There is no audio.

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These robotic lifeguard assistants are providing a safety escort to refugee boats trying to cross into Europe.

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EMILY has been upgraded since her deployment in Jan, 2016, assisting with the Syrian boat refugees in Greece, to have navigational autonomy (GPS waypoint). This is part of a project to allow lifeguards to designate where EMILY should go while they directly help people in more urgent distress

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This is a brief highlights reel of deployments from 2001-2017.

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This is a video summary of the Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue's deployments under the direction of emergency response agencies to more than 30 disasters in five countries from 2001 (9/11 World Trade Center) to 2018 (Hurricane Michael). It includes the first use of ground robots for a disaster (WTC, 2001), the first use of small unmanned aerial systems (Hurricane Katrina 2005), and the first use of water surface vehicles (Hurricane Wilma, 2005). Please see crasar.org for more information and just-in-time guides for emergency responders wanted to learn more about robots for disasters.

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This is a highlight reel of ground (UGV), aerial (UAS, UAV), and marine (USV, AUV, ROV) robots deployed by the Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue to over 30 disasters, starting in 2001 with World Trade Center.

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