Machines with microphones, remote searchers with sensors, computerized carriers with cameras.

Put them all together and you have robots to the rescue.

New technology is finding a new role in helping first responders save lives.

In the wake of disasters, Robots can speed up everything from rescue to recovery.

And this is how one woman makes a living.

The most important thing to know.

If you only know one thing is that disaster robots make the disaster go away faster.

Robots can go into these places to get to where there might have been survivors.

If I can see what I need to see, I can make good decisions to keep the responders safe.

My name is Robin Murphy.

I'm a professor of computer science and engineering at Texas A and M, and I work with disaster robots.

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.

We've supplied robots for 28 disasters earthquakes, Hurricane Harvey.

We assisted with the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident.

When we go, we bring robots and people that we've tested and practiced within our training exercises.

One of the biggest challenges to doing work in rescue robotics is not the robotics.

Is Theo everything else?

You're going to a different world.

It's really challenging to be at a disaster.

There's, Ah, physiological and psychological impact of that.

It really takes quite a toll.

So you have to be really good at what you're doing.

But my job is so incredibly fulfilling.

It's about the science and the technology and the way it could be used for societal good.

That's a big deal to me.