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 robot has steerable nozzle modules along the length of the hose. Those nozzles then fire siphoned high-pressure water from the hose downwards, lifting the machine into the air.