Helping Hearts of Service: Drone Use in Disaster Relief Missions with Dr. Robin Murphy, Director of the Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue

Check out Aloft’s B4UFLY Check the Map Podcast: Helping Hearts of Service: Drone Use in Disaster Relief Missions with Dr. Robin Murphy, Director of the Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue. In this week’s episode, Aloft Head of Community, Erica Cooley & guest host, Dr. Robin Murphy, fellow Part 107 certified drone pilot, Raytheon Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University, and director of the Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue, discuss how robotics specifically drones are being used for disaster relief missions, the importance of training programs like the one’s offered by the Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue and much more.
Dr. Robin R. Murphy is the Raytheon Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University, a director of the Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue (crasar.org), and an AAAS, ACM, and IEEE Fellow. Dr. Murphy has deployed ground, aerial, and marine robots to over 30 disasters in five countries since the 9/11 World Trade Center. She led the first use of small drones for a disaster, Hurricane Katrina, in 2005 with subsequent deployments to Fukushima, Hurricane Harvey, the Surfside collapse, and numerous other floods, landslides, and hurricanes. Her experiences are captured in a TED talk, 150 papers, and four books including the award-winning Disaster Robotics.

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