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FIRE SERVICE AND GENERAL FIRE SAFETY TOPICS => General Interest => Topic started by: Benzerari on November 19, 2008, 06:53:40 PM

Title: Robots fighting fires ?
Post by: Benzerari on November 19, 2008, 06:53:40 PM: What do you think of robots designed specifically to fight fires..., since robots can see beyond infra red and ultra violet spectrum..., also they can access hotter area where the humans are unable to do... etc

I know guys this will not make fire fighters happy!
Title: Re: Robots fighting fires ?
Post by: colin todd on November 19, 2008, 11:05:02 PM: Its been working in fire safety enforcment for years. Ask messey, he works in a office full of them.
Title: Re: Robots fighting fires ?
Post by: Galeon on November 19, 2008, 11:15:45 PM: Arnie the Terminator is having a good go at the moment!
Title: Re: Robots fighting fires ?
Post by: Allen Higginson on November 20, 2008, 12:51:38 AM: Quote from: Benzerari on November 19, 2008, 06:53:40 PM
What do you think of robots designed specifically to fight fires..., since robots can see beyond infra red and ultra violet spectrum..., also they can access hotter area where the humans are unable to do... etc

I know guys this will not make fire fighters happy! ???
Benz,,there's medication available to subdue your thought processes!!
Stay off the caffeine and the red coloured sweets in the meantime!!! ;D
Title: Re: Robots fighting fires ?
Post by: Thomas Brookes on November 20, 2008, 08:00:33 AM: Not sure about Robots, but a lot of the (Fire Risk Managers, I think thats what they are called not perhaps some one will correct me if Im wrong on that one) are not from this planet. Does that count
Title: Re: Robots fighting fires ?
Post by: Midland Retty on November 20, 2008, 12:28:34 PM: You will comply you will comply you will comply OR YOU WILL BE EXTERMINATED OR YOU WILL BE EXTERMINATED you will comply you will comply

Dunno what Mr Todd means :D
Title: Re: Robots fighting fires ?
Post by: Benzerari on November 20, 2008, 12:32:55 PM: Monitored Robots are found to be useful within other fields..., the one I mean by Robots are far away from the terminator and sort of..., it's rather a sort of armoured vehicle with tracks and rotating turret, and a heavy hydraulically monitored hands to hold the hoses they can be so power full to access the hotter area and spray the sources of fires and not their generated flames..., it's an idea which I guess it can be so useful for wild fires one day... etc
Title: Re: Robots fighting fires ?
Post by: Thomas Brookes on November 20, 2008, 02:14:53 PM: Benz,
you really are light years ahead of your time.

Nice thought though, would they be able to get part time jobs as painters on their days off & then set up as fire extinguisher engineers when they retire as well.
Title: Re: Robots fighting fires ?
Post by: Benzerari on November 20, 2008, 03:14:08 PM: It's rather the same fire fighters which may be trained to take the monitoring process of such job…, initially the idea is not to bring up extra terrestrial fire fighters to take over... etc, it might be easier to swallow a loss of robots when fighting fires but not humans though… etc
Title: Re: Robots fighting fires ?
Post by: Goodsparks on November 20, 2008, 06:08:55 PM: LMFAO

What next the RFBU, Just see them lining up outside the station now, burning tv sets campaigning for more memory or better quality components ;D
Title: Re: Robots fighting fires ?
Post by: Thomas Brookes on November 20, 2008, 08:18:04 PM: Would you see them in the Bars at night telling the girls "Im a fireman you know"
Title: Re: Robots fighting fires ?
Post by: Benzerari on November 20, 2008, 08:50:08 PM: Buzz

Caffeine is very useful to neutralize 5.2% of alcohol and keeps you awake ;)
Title: Re: Robots fighting fires ?
Post by: colin todd on November 22, 2008, 10:31:45 PM: Sorry, Benzo, I dodnt realize you were talking about MONITORED robots. No one monitors Messeys chums, thats half the problem
Title: Re: Robots fighting fires ?
Post by: Benzerari on November 22, 2008, 10:59:15 PM: Quote from: colin todd on November 22, 2008, 10:31:45 PM
Sorry, Benzo, I dodnt realize you were talking about MONITORED robots. No one monitors Messeys chums, thats half the problem

What did you realize then? Robots have already been used for wars, why not fires?
Title: Re: Robots fighting fires ?
Post by: messy on November 22, 2008, 11:34:34 PM: Quote from: colin todd on November 22, 2008, 10:31:45 PM
Sorry, Benzo, I dodnt realize you were talking about MONITORED robots. No one monitors Messeys chums, thats half the problem

Come on now Sir Colin.

I know you've had 'monitoring related' issues with my employer before, but surely that was years ago now and I thought we'd made up and were pals again.

As for monitoring, it's worse here than any Orwellian book at the moment when it comes to being monitored. Try typing 'Man' or 'Him' (rather than 'person' or 'him/her') into the firm's PC and see what happens!!!.
Title: Re: Robots fighting fires ?
Post by: Benzerari on November 22, 2008, 11:53:15 PM: What language you are talking messy? I have to reconfigure my brain first! ;D
Title: Re: Robots fighting fires ?
Post by: colin todd on November 23, 2008, 05:31:15 AM: Messey, you are right, time is a great healer and one should eventually let bygones be bygones. Tell you what, hit me up again when I am 324 years old and I will review the situation.
Title: Re: Robots fighting fires ?
Post by: Benzerari on November 24, 2008, 01:51:21 PM: Any thing I think about, I find some one else in America or else where already thought about, what's ashame to me :'(, look at that

http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=408

http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-158601227.html

http://www.engadget.com/2004/04/30/the-11th-annual-international-fire-fighting-robot-contest/

http://www.primidi.com/2006/11/14.html#a1675

http://www.tedlarson.com/robots/firefighter.htm

http://acm.poly.edu/~perc/projects/fire_fighter.html
Title: Re: Robots fighting fires ?
Post by: wee brian on November 24, 2008, 02:13:59 PM: http://www.qinetiq.com/home/newsroom/news_releases_homepage/2003/3rd_quarter/robot_sam.html
Title: Re: Robots fighting fires ?
Post by: Benzerari on November 24, 2008, 06:01:24 PM: Quote from: wee brian on November 24, 2008, 02:13:59 PM
http://www.qinetiq.com/home/newsroom/news_releases_homepage/2003/3rd_quarter/robot_sam.html

You see W.B. thanks to Mr SAM :-\
Title: Re: Robots fighting fires ?
Post by: Morri on November 25, 2008, 08:41:04 AM: ....and here!

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/05/robot_firefighters_in_london/