A newly recruited firefighter in Los Angeles put out a major fire even before being formally introduced at a news conference. That new recruit is a robot. The Thermite RS3, the first robotic ...

Fire officials said the 3,500-pound robot that resembles a small tank is capable of spraying 2,500 gallons per minute, with a stream that can reach high as 150 feet high or 300 feet across.

The robot will be working with a Navy firefighter during this exercise.” In the second scenario, SAFFIR will work autonomously to identify a much smaller fire and put it out. “Our goal is to ...

Robots fighting fire? Preposterous, you might say. But wait a minute, the future is here and autonomous fighting machines are making their way into the fire service in a big way. With human-like ...

Ukrainian rescuers received their first firefighting robot from a Ukrainian manufacturer on July 5, informs the State ...

The Los Angeles City Fire Department responded to a structure fire at 7056 N Van Nuys Blvd in Van Nuys Wednesday at 2:45 p.m., PIO Captain Jacob Raabe reports. The first fire company arrived to ...

SAFFiR, the US Navy's experimental firefighting robot, may be in for some competition. That's because researchers at IIT-Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia have successfully tested a new-and-improved ...

Ocado, the UK-based online grocery store, had patented a robot firefighter to help put fires out in its warehouses, years before the company’s hi-tech warehouse caught fire.

Armed Army robot vehicles conducted reconnaissance, called for indirect fire and then, when directed by human decision-makers, attacked and destroyed enemy targets in a recent experiment designed ...