While some robots look like a lot of fun and can put a smile on your face, others clearly have a more serious job to do. Take the Thermite RS3, built by Kansas-based Textron. This chunky bit of kit ...

It’s the early hours of the morning. An explosion at a chemical plant, caused when multiple containers caught fire, has triggered a blaze that’s now raging out of control. Worse, the plant is located ...

In recent years, the global community has been plagued by a troubling increase in devastating fire outbreaks. These disasters inflict severe economic losses, environmental degradation, and, tragically ...

Hyundai is developing an unmanned firefighting vehicle to combat underground fires. A rash of several EV fires in Korean parking garages has damped the country's electric market. The Korean government ...

If there's one job that a person would probably prefer to lose to a robot, it would be fighting fires aboard ships. To help make such a vision a reality, the US Navy and the Office of Naval Research ...

Meet SAFFiR, the firefighting robot. Fresh out of the Naval Research Lab, the bot is ready to take on rescue operations on ships that are in trouble. The Shipboard Autonomous Firefighting Robot (the ...