Firefighting is a difficult and dangerous job, which puts humans on the front line to save life and property on a regular basis. It’s a prime candidate for some robot helpers, and [Ivan] has … ...

The first robot to put out a fire was "Speedy Bullet," built by Harmanveer Cheema and Manpreet Sidhu. “Leading up to the competition, we had built a more complex robot,” said Sidhu. “But in the ...

The fire-fighting 'dragon' robot with the body of a hose that can wiggle through windows to put out a blaze ... Project Skyway: World's largest network of 'drone superhighways' could be built in ...

The SAFFIR project has received positive attention in the media; however, some sources labeled SAFFIR as a “C-3PO-based robot,” referring to the well-known humanoid robot in the Star Wars ...

It's taken seven months of work for two young American designers, Jordan Guelde and Daniel Shankland II, to create this concept model for a forest-fire-fighting robot. But though it resembles an ...

Sheffield-Hallam University is heading a pan-European project aimed at developing intelligent robots to assist fire fighters in hazardous buildings and expects demonstrate its designs on 18 January.

If a fire department wanted to buy a Bulldog and two robots, a Thermite and a Guardian, say, it would cost about $400,000. Additionally, Howe hopes to drive the day-to-day insurance costs of a ...

The Trinity College Fire-Fighting Robot Contest is the largest public robot competition in the world. The goal of the contest is for the robots to move through a model floor plan of a house, find ...

The date is Nov. 3, 2014. A fire erupts on the ex-USS Shadwell, anchored in Mobile Bay, Alabama. Smoke quickly fills the small room where the fire burns in a metal canister. A tall humanoid robot ...

Barak Houry, 12, sits next to a small-scale model of a fire-fighting robot concept he built on his own. Houry was killed while riding his bike on Yom Kippur on September 15, 2021. (Courtesy of the ...

The next generation of firefighters may not be wearing boots and suspenders—instead, they’ll be robots. A glimpse of such a future can be seen at Trinity College’s 12th annual Fire-Fighting ...