Videos and Testimonials
Police departments and sheriff's offices describing, in their own words, how they use Transcend robots: armed standoffs, barricaded suspects, welfare checks, warrant service, hazmat scenes and remote gas deployment.
Each page has the video, a short summary, links to the robots shown, and a transcript.
Chief Wright | 7:05
A traffic stop turned into a vehicle pursuit and an armed barricade. The chief describes deploying the Transcend Vantage to cover the back of the home, the suspect switching to a rifle and shooting the robot through a window, and why that hit would otherwise have landed on an officer.
Pratt County Sheriff's Office, Kansas | 7:08
Four to five years with the Vantage: a butane pipeline burst, suspicious packages on railroad tracks, SWAT callouts, hazmat and bomb-squad support. Stair climbing, debris fields, thermal and night vision, body drags, and gas deployment.
Bismarck Police Department, North Dakota | 3:14
Welfare checks on an armed, suicidal subject and a domestic-violence arrest where the suspect would not come to the door. Bismarck PD pushed the Mini through a window, cleared every room, and the suspect surrendered when he saw the robot.
SWAT team leader | 5:49
Reliability across hundreds of miles of travel and training, throw-phone and food delivery in hostage situations, delivering a ram to a stuck entry team, fire-department hazmat use, and precise gas deployment in large multi-story homes.
Chico Police Department, California | 3:32
A barricaded subject in a motel room, resolved with the Transcend Breacher robot.
Westminster Police Department | 2:30
Sergeant Hill describes a callout for a subject in crisis inside a mobile home: the Vantage made announcements from the front porch, watched the door, and the subject came out. His recommendation to any agency that has the opportunity to get one.
Berkeley County Sheriff's Office, South Carolina | 3:52
Deputies surround a house with an armed subject inside. The SRT team sends the Vantage in with lights, camera, microphone and OC delivery, and talks the subject down the stairs with his hands up. No deputies hurt, no subject hurt.
Spring Lake Park Police Department, Minnesota | 2:31
Why sending the robot down a corridor instead of an officer changes the whole call, a 20-minute crash course that got the entire department driving it, morale, customer service, and a robot that came out of a dirty crawl space good as new.
Sioux Falls Police Department, South Dakota | 1:25
Three or four callouts this year resolved with the remote gas deployment system instead of hand-thrown or launched chemical agents. On one, the Vantage pushed through a locked apartment door, deployed gas in the living room, and the suspect dropped the knife and surrendered.
Sioux Falls Police Department, South Dakota | 1:27
Five years in with the Vantage and Mini: fixes, upgrades and questions answered immediately, and the ability to upgrade an existing Vantage to the newer systems instead of buying new.