Dallas Fire-Rescue can use the robot to drive right up to the train and hose down the vessels while minimizing the risks to firefighters on the scene.

Fighting fire with robots may take jobs away from humans, but it can also save lives. [Mell Bell Electronics] has built a (supervised) kid-friendly version of a firefighting robot that extinguishes… ...

Robots developed at Virginia Tech became world-class soccer champions this past summer. Now they are moving on to fire-fighting and other tasks proving too dangerous or dull for humans.

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The protoype is two meters long in the video, but the robot can be extended to any length by adding on more segments. A gas engine powered a compressor that provided water at 0.7 MPa. The ...

Meet the Shipboard Autonomous Fire-Fighting Robot, or SAFFiR. This humanoid robot, four years in the making, will one day help you locate and suppress fires.