Fighting fire with robots may take jobs away from humans, but it can also save lives. [Mell Bell Electronics] has built a (supervised) kid-friendly version of a firefighting robot that extinguishes… ...

It’s a radio controlled robot with an Arduino Uno for the brains. A couple of motor driver boards are used to run four windscreen wiper motors for propulsion.

Fire-fighting features The robot’s smoke detector can detect the type of fire based on the nature of the smoke emitted.

The students of mechanics at Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, Gill Park, have designed a prototype of fire fighting robot, after being “inspired” by the fire at a plastic factory in Suffian ...