Lifeguards

Could you throw a lifebuoy all the way out to a distressed swimmer located one kilometer away? Nope, you couldn't … but you could fly one out to them, in the form of the TY-3R Flying Lifebuoy drone.

Even though lifeguards are essential to maintaining safety at swimming pools, they can't always see everything that's happening. That's where a new swimmer-saving underwater robot is designed to come in.

Lifeguards do play a vital role in the prevention of drownings, but at busy beaches, they can't always keep track of all the swimmers at all times. That's where Sightbit is made to come in, as it uses AI to catch what lifeguards may miss.

After being swept away by the surf off the coast of New South Wales, two Australian swimmers have found themselves safely back on shore after a local lifeguard used a drone to deliver them a lifesaving flotation device. ​

RTS Lab has successfully tested a prototype of its Pars aerial robot, a drone that flies out over large bodies of water to drop life preservers near drowning victims. During the trials, Pars outpaced a human lifeguard by more than 60 seconds, giving it a crucial edge when it comes to saving lives.

Frankly, what I know about water sports can be written on the dorsal fin of my imaginary surf board (what do you mean they don't have dorsal fins?), but I'm not going to let that stop me telling you a bit about Asap, an electric watercraft designed for lifeguards.

Iranian research center, RTS Lab, is developing Pars, a robotic quadcopter that launches from a floating platform and drops life preservers near people in the ocean who are in trouble.

EMILY is an electric remote-control motorized rescue buoy, that shore-based lifeguards can use to rescue drowning swimmers.

Teseo+Arianna is a beach rescue system concept that uses solar power.

September 19, 2005 The BraunPrize for 2005 has been awarded to Jens Andersson from Sweden for his design “Rescue Buoy” - a swimming robot in the form of a li