Global Specialties has introduced a small autonomous mobile robot suited for those new to the robotics world as well as experienced Arduino fans. Designed using the Arduino open-source prototyping ...

Robots fighting fire? Preposterous, you might say. But wait a minute, the future is here and autonomous fighting machines are making their way into the fire service in a big way. With human-like ...

In 2011, the Office of Naval Research, or ONR, began work on a shipboard autonomous fire-fighting robot or SAFFiR to explore ways to help naval crews deal with fires faster but also to decrease ...

Researchers from Virginia Tech demonstrate the shipboard autonomous firefighting robot or SAFFIR at the Naval Future Force Science & Technology EXPO at Walter E. Washington Convention Center in ...

Robots developed at Virginia Tech became world-class soccer champions this past summer. Now they are moving on to fire-fighting and other tasks proving too dangerous or dull for humans.

“There might be different robots with different roles, such as boundary cooling and fire suppressing.” As of late 2012, the Virginia Tech engineers were wholly focused on SAFFIR’s functionality.

Meet Lucas and Octavia, the Navy's expressive autonomous robots, who are designed to one day work side by side with Naval Personnel to combat fires on ships. × SIGN UP ...

The U.S. Navy is testing shipboard autonomous firefighting robots to both detect and extinguish on-board fires By Sarah Gray Published April 3, 2014 10:15PM (EDT) ...