Sky Guardian
Google I/O HackathonOur technology has reached the point where society needs to stop putting human lives at risk and start leveraging the tools around us. Picture this: a building collapses in a major city, and a rescue team has to be sent inside to search for survivors trapped in the debris, putting the rescuers' lives on the line alongside the people they're trying to save. That's why we built SkyGuardian: a system that pairs autonomous drones with a Gemini 3.5 intelligence layer to enter unknown spaces in place of humans. A Mavic surveys from above and uses Gemini to identify and map survivors, hazards, and points of interest in real time. A Tello then acts as a robotic arm for close inspection, piloted by a single Gemini 3.5 Live session that sees through the drone's camera, listens to a remote dispatcher, and navigates to each subject on voice command. One model, watching and flying. No rescuers in the rubble until we know exactly what's waiting for them. That's why we built SkyGuardian. A versatile system that utilizes drones and a Gemini intelligence layer to deploy a drone into an unknown space, use Gemini live to understand the area and map it out in real-time, then talk to a Gemini agent to understand the environment.
