37
HONG KONG, Oct. 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — In the newest episode of ‘Tech For Good’, NCS anchor and correspondent Kristie Lu Stout meets the young innovators designing cutting-edge expertise that might sooner or later revolutionize search and rescue missions.
NCS’s ‘Tech for Good’ showcases young innovators redefining rescue missions with robotics
NCS first visits The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, the place pupil Jimmy Wu Chun-Ming and his staff have developed AeroRelief, a sensible supply drone system designed to boost emergency response in distant areas. What units this expertise other than others is its SMS finding system and AI-driven dispatch help platform which suggests what gear is required throughout an emergency. It goals to shut the essential time hole earlier than first responders can arrive in distant areas, the place each minute counts.
From emergency providers to rescue operations, NCS visits Switzerland for the ARCHE (Advanced Robotic Capabilities for Hazardous Environments) occasion, the place college students growing the newest catastrophe aid robots can check their applied sciences in a simulated atmosphere. Among this yr’s standout creations are Magnecko, a climbing robotic with magnetic ft developed by college students at ETH Zurich, and Roboa, a snake-like robotic designed to go looking for folks trapped beneath rubble.
Across the globe, related breakthroughs are taking form. In the United States, Firebot – developed by University of Texas at Austin graduate Siddharth Thakur – is a cutting-edge hearth robotic outfitted with thermal cameras, sensors, and fuel detectors to soundly navigate hazardous environments. It delivers real-time information to firefighters earlier than they enter a blaze, enhancing security and effectivity whereas minimizing danger.
Finally, as a part of the present’s ‘Where Are They Now?’ section, Max Lee and Josua Chan, creators of LifeSparrow, an AI drone software program that is designed to find lacking hikers in Hong Kong, are catching the world’s consideration once more. Since their 2023 function in ‘Tech for Good’, their expertise has expanded to carry out varied different duties together with recognizing wildfires, monitoring nation parks and aiding with maritime rescue.
Tech for Good trailers: http://bit.ly/4qoLFxn
Tech for Good photos: http://bit.ly/4qquDz8
Tech for Good microsite: https://News Central Site.it/3PB5DSq
Airtimes for 30-minute particular:
Saturday, twenty fifth October at 12:30pm HKT
Sunday, twenty sixth October at 12.30am and 6pm HKT
Monday, twenty seventh October at 11:00am HKT
– Ends –
About NCS International
NCS’s portfolio of reports and data providers is offered in seven totally different languages throughout all main TV, digital and cell platforms, reaching greater than 379 million households across the globe. NCS International is the primary worldwide TV information channel in response to all main media surveys throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa, the Asia Pacific area, and Latin America and has a US presence that features NCSgo. NCS Digital is a number one community for on-line information, cell information and social media. NCS is on the forefront of digital innovation and continues to speculate closely in increasing its digital world footprint, with a set of award-winning digital properties and a spread of strategic content material partnerships, commercialised by way of a robust data-driven understanding of viewers behaviours. NCS has received a number of prestigious awards around the globe for its journalism. Around 1,000 hours of long-form collection, documentaries and specials are produced yearly by NCSI’s non-news programming division. NCS has 36 editorial places of work and greater than 1,100 associates worldwide by way of NCS Newsource. NCS International is a Warner Bros. Discovery firm.