Engineering students designed robots to take part in a simulated fire fight in the 22nd Annual Electrical and Computer Engineering Design Competition.

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.

Japanese researchers have developed an astonishing robot with a snake-like body that is capable of fighting fires. The 'dragon robot' is capable of wriggling into hard-to-reach gaps between ...

Guardians are a swarm of autonomous robots applied to navigate and search in potentially dangerous urban ground. This may be a building full of smoke or an industrial warehouse where toxic substances ...

The fire-fighting robot is made up of aluminium sheets – which are used in aeroplanes – that can withstand temperatures of up to 700 centigrade.

China has unveiled its new fire-fighting robots during a drill at Beijing's Forbidden City in China on October 10. The robots can enter buildings with explosives and toxic materials.

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The remotely controlled robotic firefighting vehicle is kitted with a 360 degree panoramic camera that streams live video to a mobile phone or to a central control room.

The firefighting robot is the brainchild of four students of the electrical department and the prototype covers design and construction of a robot that is able to sense and extinguish fire.

Online supermarket Ocado has filed a patent for a fire-fighting robot as the grocer seeks to improve fire safety at its distribution hubs.The design will allow the device to work within the grid ...

A fire fighting robot goes up the steps at a workshop of Anshan Hengye Special Vehicle Manufacturing Co., Ltd. in Anshan, northeast China's Liaoning Province, April 14, 2020. This new all-terrain fire ...

For one thing, someone has to control the robot, but the idea is that the robots will bring the situation under control, which then allows the firefighter to approach the area and rescue victims ...