COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KBTX) - When disaster strikes, there's a good chance the people responding were trained at Texas A&M Engineering Extension Services' Disaster City."We train all the FEMA teams here at Disaster City across the country, and all the fire and police come out here, and even the military come out here. So what they're trying to do to do a triage using robots and sensors is directly in line with what we do with our task force teams," said Ray Ivie, the Director of TEEX Research.

Today marked the finale of an event that has spanned 3 years, called the DARPA Triage Challenge.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency focuses on implementing technology into service and developing new technology for situations such as disaster relief."So I was on active duty for 28 years, and I was a medic instructor as well. And I didn't always have the tools my team needed. If we can detect what's in the environment ahead of time and they can don the appropriate personal protective equipment, that helps them," said Kimberly Elenberg, the primary investigator with Chiron, a team in the competition.