If there's one job that a person would probably prefer to lose to a robot, it would be fighting fires aboard ships. To help make such a vision a reality, the US Navy and the Office of Naval Research (ONR) released details of demonstration exercises conducted by their Shipboard Autonomous Firefighting Robot (SAFFiR) aboard the fire training ship USS Shadwell last November... Continue Reading SAFFiR, the US Navy’s prototype firefighting robot gets baptism of fire
Section: Military
Tags: Fire, Firefighting, ONR, Prototype, Robotics, Robots, US Navy, Virginia Tech
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