Team of QinetiQ Robots Cooperate To Fight Fires
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Thursday, 30 of July , 2009 at 3:01 am
Instead of designing one single generalized fire fighting robot, QinetiQ has developed an entire specialized team to tackle especially dangerous fires involving acetylene gas cylinders. There are three different ROVs, each with a specific task: a modified Talon equipped with thermal imaging cameras that does reconnaissance, a larger bot with wheels called Black Max that carries a high pressure water hose, and the Brokk 90, which is a robotic mini-digger that can shove debris and obstacles out of the way to get at the cylinders themselves.
The BBC has a video of the robots in action, but like all BBC embedded programming, it doesn’t seem to work in Firefox. Bleh.
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