ABC 40 KRHD-TV - Bryan/College Station News and Weather | TAMU Robots Brought in for Ike Cleanup
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by John Cuoco
COLLEGE STATION - A good deal of damage left in the wake of Hurricane Ike is still left in the Galveston area. In order to repair some of that damage, the Texas Transportation Institute at Texas A&M teamed up with the Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue.
Last week a team of robotics experts, engineers, and disaster experts spent two days using robots to inspect the extent of the damage and the amount of debris in Galveston left by the hurricane.
Dr. David Trejo is part of the team assembled to take on the Ike cleanup effort.
"These benefits will get clean up done faster, they will make it safer, and of course with these it's a more economical cost to the residents," Trejo said.
Trejo and his team say the first trip went well and this technology could be used much more in the future for any other disasters.
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