Drones and ultra-tall ladder trucks hold promise, but prevention is still best for avoiding repeat of Wang Fuk Court blaze, ...

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 ...

HANGZHOU, CN / ACCESS Newswire / June 27, 2025 / With the rapid development of technology, unmanned intelligent emergency rescue equipment is gradually becoming the new favorite in the field of public ...

Dallas Fire-Rescue personnel observe a demonstration model of Howe and Howe Technologies' Thermite robotic firefighter. The unit Dallas is purchasing will look slightly different. This new piece of ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — It’s the most dangerous part of being a firefighter: entering a burning structure blind to look for victims. What if a robot could go in first? As these first responders search for ...

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This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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. KANSAS CITY, Mo. — On Saturday morning, the ...

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 ...

“Spot,” the nascent Terminator on four legs invented by Skynet, er, I mean, Boston Dynamics, has landed its next public safety gig: firefighter. The New York Times reports that the city’s fire ...

US company BurnBot presented its RX2 robot for wildfire fighting to officials in Nevada County, California. The robot can burn swaths into the ground, thus preventing the spread of wildfires or ...