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 angry ...

Soon, autonomous shipboard humanoids will present themselves on Navy ships to fight fires. Dennis Hong, profossor of mechanical and materials science at Virginia Tech and director of the Robotics and ...

This requires fire-fighting robots to possess the capabilities of complex environmental perception and operation in extreme environments. LYNX M20 wheel-legged robot from DEEP Robotics is equipped ...

In time, these robots could find hot spots and deliver fire suppression agents, say researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara. "These robots are slow, but that is OK for fighting ...