Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Robotic Firefighters debut in London


Science and technology reporter from BBC News has an article on the awesomeness that is the Robotic Firefighting team. A team of fire-fighting robots has been unveiled by defence contractor QinetiQ at a demonstration in London. The team is quite successfully and featured already in 10 incidents, they will be added to the arsenal of London for at least 2 years. The robots range from a nimble, stair-climbing reconnaissance unit to a diesel-powered robot with a large claw.They remind me a lot off Wall-E. How cool it wouldn't be to see them in action.

Full Article here : BBC Technology News

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