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.

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 ...

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