Sunday, March 18th 2007
Japanese get another cool robot: a firefighter
Unlike the Japanese tissue dispenser, this robot actually has a helpful purpose to serve. This firefighter goes into burning buildings, searches for people that need rescuing, and rescues them by sucking them into a fire-proof compartment. The robot is remote-controlled, and still requires operators (because robots aren't quite smart enough to grab people with needles on their own yet). However, if firefighter tech keeps advancing the way it is, we may have another job that is completely replaced by machines, dashing the hopes of 4 year old boys everywhere.
Source:
Engadget
19 Comments on Japanese get another cool robot: a firefighter
procedes to rip the limbs of those it saves and use those limbs to put out fires.
those are the only posibilitys i see :D jk. its kinda cool, wish we would try with robotics like the japanese do.
Wait, do the firefighters in Japan only wear those bright, orange suits?
Looks like:
think, all they need is to put machine guns on these and then you could have robo police, well sort of, and bukd an army to march *wheel* on m$
SERIOUSLY
Where is the frxxking water hose, etc. How the hxxx is this thing going to climb stairs or get in a lift? How is it going to open doors?
MARKS FOR HOMEWORK 1/10
(One point for the comedy element)
So potentially, you could be almost engulfed in fire, when one of these things drives up to you and sucks you to safety. Only for the heavy robot, with you inside to fall through the collapsing concrete floor and send you plunging on a 14 story joy ride. Splat, in a word.
Reminds me of the elevator scene in Speed 1 :D
But imagine getting eaten up by one of these machines... only for the remote control to fail... and you get trapped in a mechanical oven surrounded by fire. Only way out? Fireman to come running in with a toolbox and dismantle the beast. Aweful.