October 27, 2005 - ASR and Inuktun introduces the newly redesigned Versatrax 150 at a promotional price! The Versatrax 150’s newly engineered chassis allows for an operator to easily optimize the parallel configuration of the crawler system for a 12" and greater pipe diameter in a matter of seconds!

For the month of November, ASR will offer the newly redesigned VT150 at a promotional price. Click here for details.

October 16 , 2005 - ASR uses a VideoRay Pro III to film Mayor Billiris of Tarpon Springs as she dove from a traditional Tarpon Springs sponge boat anchored in the mouth of the Anclote River.
The Historical Diving Society celebrated their 100th Anniversary of the first Greek divers to arrive in Tarpon Springs. ASR used a VideoRay Pro III to film the Mayor of Tarpon Springs, Beverley Billiris, as she demonstrated traditional sponge diving with a canvas suit, steel shoes and a copper diving helmet.

October 7-10 , 2005 - ASR participates in RoboNexus 2005, "the largest robotics event in the western hemisphere".
ASR brought several of their crawlers and camera systems to San Jose this past week to take part in RoboNexus 2005, including the VGTV Xtreme which conquered the mock disaster site in their booth. Read about it in the San Francisco Chronicle, PC Magazine, and Robots.net.

September 23 , 2005 - ASR wins Second Prize in Ocean Optics Photo Contest!
ASR took pictures at a a simulated hazardous-material training session as a firefighter, Brian Minten, prepared the VGTV Xtreme robots equipped with an Ocean Optics spectrometer to identify the chemical involved in the drill.

Hurricane Katrina - Biloxi, Mississippi – August 29, 2005 – In response to the disaster resulting from Hurricane Katrina, ASR was able to send in the VGTV Xtreme robot crawler into unstable structures to search for trapped survivors or victims of the storm, while keeping rescuers at a safe distance. The small green robot was able to climb over rubble and show that there were no victims inside.