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 ...

Fumo handling 2000 l/min of water at a pressure of 10 bar controlled by a fire-fighter. Loading Fumo on a pickup truck. The picture shows how compact Fumo is and also easy to handle. Competing ...

Blacksburg, VA - Researchers at Virginia Tech continue to perfect the future of firefighting aboard Navy ships... and it's almost right out of a Terminator movie. The team receives funding from the ...

MVF-5 is a fire robot used in complicated situations. The company from Croatia DOC-ING has created a multifunctional robotic ...

FLINT, MI -- When MegaBots co-founder Matt Oehrlein got the wild idea to make giant fighting robots, it was like a dream come true. The 15-foot-tall, 15,000-pound robots will eventually be used to ...

Researchers from Virginia Tech demonstrate the shipboard autonomous firefighting robot or SAFFIR at the Naval Future Force Science & Technology EXPO at Walter E. Washington Convention Center in ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. A fire-fighting robot is changing the way an ...

A fire-fighting robot designed by the U.S. Navy could help protect sailors as they carry out missions on the high seas. The Shipboard Autonomous Firefighting Robot (Saffir) has been in development for ...

Cory Sommerville and his fellow Pyro Maniacs never studied electronics or computer programming in school. And yet there they were Sunday, cheering as a robot they built maneuvered its way around a ...

“If a robot cannot play a game of soccer, then it won’t be able to help humans,” said Dennis Hong, associate professor in mechanical engineering at Virginia Tech, just before he boarded a plane to ...

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 structures ...

TOKYO >> Japan’s Fire and Disaster Management Agency plans to deploy unmanned firefighting robots and other specialized vehicles as part of its efforts to enhance the equipment and machinery used by ...