We visited in Japan again to survey what variations of structural damage and collapse occur after a major earthquake and to take as many images as possible for our AI YOLO training.

As expected, the vast majority of damaged homes contained passageways large enough for our sub 30cm drones to access. It is a misconception that earthquakes 'flatten' buildings. In fact most partially collapse making them even more hazardous to access, especially when aftershocks are guaranteed.

After a tsunami, drones are even more capable: houses are literally pushed around against each-other, making them extremely hard to access. Floodwaters remain, further complicating searches. Drones have no such issues.

We want to employ AI to make searches faster and safer than the current methods. We want responders to be able to move through a neighborhood auto-searching a building for 5-10 minutes before moving on to the next.

This is drone and AI working in tandem for immediate real life results.

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