https://sar-one.com/reports/technology/ New tools and methods in search and rescue. en-us https://sar-one.com/reports/technology/nfri-thermal-camera/ https://sar-one.com/reports/technology/nfri-thermal-camera/ Thu, 29 Oct 2026 15:00:00 +0000 South Korea’s National Fire Research Institute has sent a handheld thermal camera that strips smoke from the infrared image in real time to four fire stations for a month of field trials, after shrinking its 2023 prototype by about two-thirds. https://sar-one.com/reports/technology/tmsuk-water-robot/ https://sar-one.com/reports/technology/tmsuk-water-robot/ Mon, 26 Oct 2026 15:00:00 +0000 Japanese robot maker tmsuk unveiled a remote-controlled water-cannon robot, built with the Munakata District Fire Department, that is small enough to ride a fire department’s own trucks and can drive with its hose attached into zones too dangerous for crews. https://sar-one.com/reports/technology/evolver-dfr/ https://sar-one.com/reports/technology/evolver-dfr/ Thu, 22 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 XTI Aerospace’s Drone Nerds bundles a Parrot drone, a DBOX dock, SkyfireAI software, FAA paperwork and training into one drone-as-first-responder program sold on a single purchase order. https://sar-one.com/reports/technology/army-blood-link/ https://sar-one.com/reports/technology/army-blood-link/ Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Delta Development Team and The Good Drone Company won a US Army contract to build two hybrid VTOL drones that fly chilled blood to troops when roads are unsafe. https://sar-one.com/reports/technology/soten-digital-twin/ https://sar-one.com/reports/technology/soten-digital-twin/ Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 SpaceData and ACSL say they moved drone search functions built and tested in a virtual copy of a Japanese drone test field onto ACSL’s real SOTEN industrial drone. https://sar-one.com/reports/technology/ayudag-6/ https://sar-one.com/reports/technology/ayudag-6/ Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Ukrainian troops used a Gurzuf Defence heavy hexacopter and a winch to lift a wounded soldier off a mined front-line position, in what they call the first aerial drone evacuation of its kind. https://sar-one.com/reports/technology/stargate/ https://sar-one.com/reports/technology/stargate/ Thu, 15 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 SkyFall’s six-rotor StarGate is built to fly a wounded soldier out on a stretcher, and a Ukrainian regiment began front-line trials in October. https://sar-one.com/reports/technology/vine-robot/ https://sar-one.com/reports/technology/vine-robot/ Sun, 11 Oct 2026 18:00:00 +0000 Korea’s fire agency sent KAIST’s air-inflated vine robot into a battery warehouse too dangerous for crews or heavier robots. https://sar-one.com/reports/technology/isar/ https://sar-one.com/reports/technology/isar/ Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 LG Uplus ran SOLVIT System’s iSAR on its own network data and says it shrank a simulated mountain search area from 707 to about 4 square kilometers. https://sar-one.com/reports/technology/dru-pod/ https://sar-one.com/reports/technology/dru-pod/ Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 SoftBank flew a Japanese-built cell-site pod on a Japan Coast Guard SeaGuardian drone and put phone coverage more than 5 km across on the ground. https://sar-one.com/reports/technology/sprout/ https://sar-one.com/reports/technology/sprout/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Notre Dame’s SPROUT is an inflatable vine robot that grows up to 30 feet into collapsed buildings with a camera at its tip, developed with MIT Lincoln Laboratory and urban search-and-rescue responders. https://sar-one.com/reports/technology/vapre-m2/ https://sar-one.com/reports/technology/vapre-m2/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 The Dominican Republic’s 9-1-1 emergency system showed a first-response drone, the VAPRE-M2, that can reach a scene ahead of crews, plus a robot platform developed with Boston Dynamics. https://sar-one.com/reports/technology/recco-r9-drone/ https://sar-one.com/reports/technology/recco-r9-drone/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Drone Amplified, RECCO AB and Juneau Mountain Rescue describe mounting the RECCO R9 avalanche detector on a small drone, with shielding against drone interference, GPS-tagged detections and autonomous grid search. https://sar-one.com/reports/technology/hypershell-exoskeleton/ https://sar-one.com/reports/technology/hypershell-exoskeleton/ Sun, 27 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Wilderness Search and Rescue in South Africa’s Western Cape fitted an exhausted hiker with a Hypershell powered exoskeleton so she could walk down Table Mountain instead of being carried on a stretcher. https://sar-one.com/reports/technology/eagleeye/ https://sar-one.com/reports/technology/eagleeye/ Sun, 27 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Indonesia’s South Sulawesi conservation agency built EagleEye, a drone command center that switches between cloud AI and an on-site edge AI agent when connectivity is poor; it won a military drone competition for SAR and disaster relief. https://sar-one.com/reports/technology/msa-g1-city-edition/ https://sar-one.com/reports/technology/msa-g1-city-edition/ Wed, 23 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 MSA Safety built a LUNAR locator beacon into the power module of its G1 City Edition breathing apparatus, so crews with a LUNAR handheld can home in on a firefighter in distress. https://sar-one.com/reports/technology/tianmushan-9/ https://sar-one.com/reports/technology/tianmushan-9/ Fri, 19 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Hangzhou’s Tianmushan Laboratory released a tethered flying platform meant to give high-rise fire crews a standing aerial work surface on ground power. https://sar-one.com/reports/technology/guardian-ii/ https://sar-one.com/reports/technology/guardian-ii/ Wed, 02 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Zelim’s second-generation fast rescue craft is built to be launched, driven, and recovered with nobody aboard. https://sar-one.com/reports/technology/solion-100/ https://sar-one.com/reports/technology/solion-100/ Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Furuno and Iridium put a second satellite distress path, plus ship security and tracking, in one terminal. https://sar-one.com/reports/technology/shield-plus/ https://sar-one.com/reports/technology/shield-plus/ Mon, 31 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Wescom shows a 406 MHz personal beacon that also calls ships nearby and can show that the satellite heard the call. https://sar-one.com/reports/technology/sar4sar/ https://sar-one.com/reports/technology/sar4sar/ Tue, 14 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000 A foldable, unpowered radar reflector meant to make a small boat show up in a satellite picture. https://sar-one.com/reports/technology/lunasar/ https://sar-one.com/reports/technology/lunasar/ Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0000 A prototype two-way 406 MHz beacon that carried voice and text in a South Australia field trial. https://sar-one.com/reports/technology/loc8/ https://sar-one.com/reports/technology/loc8/ Mon, 25 May 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Coconino County uses software that scans drone search photos pixel by pixel for a clothing color.