“Crazy Hose”: Japanese engineers show a robot that extinguishes a fire in flight
The Japanese have demonstrated a prototype of a hose-like robot that takes off under water pressure and can extinguish a fire in flight.
This was reported by the publication New Atlas.
The robot can be controlled remotely using images from cameras on its “head” that can see the fire. So the developers hope that in the future, their robot dragon, as they called it, will help make firefighters’ work safer.
How effectively does the robot fight fire?
Dragon Firefighter, a firefighting robot developed by scientists at Akita Prefectural University, can climb to a height of two meters. To do this, he uses eight jets of water that hit his head and along his body. Depending on the strength of the jets, which can deliver up to 6.6 liters of water per second, the robot can change its shape and direction of movement.
Water for the Dragon Firefighter is supplied from the fire truck’s tank with a volume of up to 14 thousand liters. So far, the robot has a maximum length of four meters, and the developers admit that this is not enough to fully extinguish fires. They plan further work on the robot to increase its size and improve the water supply mechanisms, which will increase the strength of the jets to ensure that the Dragon Firefighter has a range of at least 10 meters.
