Called SAFFiR, the Navy’s humanoid robot prototype is designed to walk on uneven surfaces, use thermal imaging to locate overheated equipment, and operate a hose to extinguish fires aboard naval ...

It is April and it must be time to put out some fires. I am at annual Trinity College Fire Fighting Robot Contest in Hartford, CN. I am one of many technical speakers at this year's symposium. The ...

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 ...

Colossus, a remote-controlled firefighting robot, was used by the Paris Fire Brigade to help put out the fire at the 850-year-old cathedral while trying to keep firefighters safe. Colossus, a ...