A team of specialized Autobots not quite ready for prime-time battles against the Decepticons is given a vital mission by Optimus Prime. The goal for the Bots is to learn about mankind and how to help others to find out what it really means to be a hero.
Episode 1
The four members of Rescue Force Sigma-17 emerge and are greeted by the Autobot leader Optimus Prime, who assigns them to work with the Burns family on an island. While the four are supposed to respond to every command the humans give them, they get fed up with it and are tempted to leave Earth. Until, an animatronic dinosaur attacks the island.
Episode 2
While Chase and Chief Burns pursue an out-of-control robo-landscaper through Griffin Rock, Cody Burns reports that the rest of the team might be delayed, as his siblings are having trouble coming to terms with the fact that their rescue vehicles are alien robots. A volcano suddenly threatens the island of Griffin Rock, sending the Rescue Bots and Burns family into action. The group has to put aside their differences and work together in order to save the island.
Episode 3
No overview available.
Episode 4
Flying lobsters invade a summer festival, and an angry Heatwave refuses to help fight them.
Episode 5
The Rescue Bots are put in danger when a resident of Griffin Rock threatens to expose the secret of an "alien invasion.
Episode 6
Boulder decides that the team needs an animal mascot but maybe a zoo isn't the best place to find one.
Episode 7
Cody accidentally unleashes a swarm of futuristic nanites while he's trying to super-charge his go-kart to help in the team's rescue missions.
Episode 8
The Bots are enlisted to watch after Doc Greene's Robo-Baby.
Episode 9
Cody, his family and the Rescue Bots have to stop a snow storm in July when a weather machine goes haywire.
Episode 10
A shark targeting high-tech ocean equipment is spotted off the Griffin Rock shore.
Episode 11
No overview available.
Episode 12
A scientist tries to replace the team with a new invention, leaving everyone out of the action.
Episode 13
Cody looks for proof that the new scientist's invention is really a villainous plan.
Episode 14
The Rescue Bots are accidentally shrunk and the Burns family must work without their partners.
Episode 15
Cody finds a clue to an old mystery and makes a startling underwater discovery.
Episode 16
The Rescue Bots disobey the Chief's orders and find themselves in a life-threatening situation.
Episode 17
A storm strands Cody on a deserted island where they find a pirate ship that holds the key to a mystery.
Episode 18
Bumblebee pays the Rescue Bots a visit just in time to help investigate a mysterious meteor.
Episode 19
The Bots and Burns must stop a giant glob of space slime before it consumes the town.
Episode 20
Cody and the Rescue Bots try to solve the vanishing mystery when the residents of Griffin Rock start disappearing.
Episode 21
Ghosts haunt and terrorize the residents of Griffin Rock.
Episode 22
The kids are covertly planning a surprise birthday party for their father. Chief Burns tells them he is heading to the docks, but actually takes a trip to the bakery for a cake, as a present for his family, thinking that they forgot his birthday. Chase discovers this to be a lie and is confounded by this. While setting up the party back home, the kids and the other Rescue Bots realize that Chase and Chief Burns are missing, and search the entire town. Eventually they discover the two trapped inside an underground mine, and save them from the flooding water and falling rocks.
Episode 23
The Rescue Bots lead the rescue efforts when a series of earthquakes strike the island.
Episode 24
Doc Greene invents a repulsor badge that allows the wearer to be occluded from projectiles. Cody uses it to participate more on the front lines, in missions with the rest of his family, against Chief Burns concern of his safety. His superhero status, however, is halted when his repulsor badge is overloaded and projects a nonstop field, enclosing him inside. Boulder uses neutralizing gloves, also invented by Doc Greene, to bypass the repulsive field and successfully remove the badge from Cody, shortly before it detonates.
Episode 25
When Doc Greene's experiment with a time machine goes awry, the Bots end up being captured by an old nemesis.
Episode 26
When the Bots return home, they find that Doctor Morocco is in command of Griffin Rock.
