Meet the robot that might someday replace your entire fire department

[Wireless News]

http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/6IBkFVlN2pZiqBLVM7p85Q--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_US/News/BGR_News/saffir-robot.jpg (http://news.yahoo.com/meet-robot-might-someday-replace-entire-fire-department-034552484.html)Firefighters are our heroes… until we figure out how to replace them with robots, at least. Discovery News-points us-to the-U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s newest robot robot called SAFFiR (short for “Shipboard Autonomous Firefighting Robot”) that can walk right into deadly fires that are two intense for human firefighters to handle. Of course, films such as Terminator 2 have already taught us to believe that robots must be fire-proof by default but building an actual robot that can function in extreme heat is easier said than done. NRL says that its engineers-”have developed a class of light-weight, high temperature polyetheretherketone (PEEK)-like phthalonitrile-resin that can be molded to any shape and remain strong at temperatures up to 500 degrees Celsius,” which is



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