Jason Moats

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Dr. Jason Moats is a leading researcher in the intersection of robotics, crisis management, and disaster response. His work focuses on how robotic systems are adopted and deployed during large-scale emergencies, with a particular emphasis on real-world operational challenges. Dr. Moats’s most influential contribution is his pioneering analysis of international robot use during the COVID-19 pandemic. His highly cited 2021 study, “An analysis of international use of robots for COVID-19” (25 citations), provides a foundational dataset and framework for understanding how ground and aerial robots were rapidly mobilized across 34 countries. Expanding on this, his companion paper, “Adoption of Robots for Disasters: Lessons from the Response to COVID-19” (9 citations), treats the pandemic as a natural experiment, using the Robots for Infectious Diseases (R4ID) dataset of 203 documented robot instances to derive critical lessons for future disaster robotics. By systematically documenting and analyzing these deployments, Dr. Moats has provided essential insights into the barriers and accelerators of robot adoption in high-stakes environments, directly informing both emergency management practice and the design of more resilient robotic systems for crisis response.