kirkinX

KirkinX is an autonomous Command and Control (C2) rescue swarm platform designed to locate and assist casualties in inaccessible disaster zones where deploying human first responders poses severe life risks. Operating across complex environments, KirkinX implements a fully automated "Zero-Touch Rescue Loop." Scout drones explore hazardous sectors using onboard YOLOv8 edge vision to detect casualties. Upon detection, real-time alerts are streamed via a low-latency custom TCP socket protocol to our tactical server, which autonomously reasons and dispatches heavy unmanned ambulances without requiring manual operator intervention. Built over a pre-existing UI framework, the entire intelligence layer, multi-agent synchronization, and automated dispatch pipeline were engineered from scratch during this hackathon to allow a single human operator to oversee 100+ autonomous units.