{"id":178929,"date":"2023-12-23T13:35:29","date_gmt":"2023-12-23T19:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/scientists-create-water-spitting-flying-dragon-robot-to-fight-fires"},"modified":"2023-12-23T13:35:29","modified_gmt":"2023-12-23T19:35:29","slug":"scientists-create-water-spitting-flying-dragon-robot-to-fight-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/scientists-create-water-spitting-flying-dragon-robot-to-fight-fires","title":{"rendered":"Scientists create water-spitting \u2018flying dragon\u2019 robot to fight fires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-create-water-spitting-flying-dragon-robot-to-fight-fires2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The robot features eight adjustable water jets in its central and head regions, with a flexible firehose directed by a control unit on a trailing wheeled cart.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Functioning at a rate of 6.6 liters per second, the nozzles expel water with a pressure reaching up to one megapascal. At the tip of the hose, a combination of a traditional camera and a thermal imaging camera is integrated, facilitating the identification and location of the fire. This technological integration enhances the Dragon Firefighter\u2019s firefighting capabilities, according to the team.<\/p>\n<p><b>Learning process<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The inaugural testing of the system took place during the opening ceremony of the World Robot Summit 2020 (WRS2020), held in September 2021 in <a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/science\/fukushima-npp-has-a-bigger-problem-than-water-release\" title=\"Fukushima\" rel=\"dofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Fukushima<\/a>. Dragon Firefighter \u201csuccessfully extinguished [49 min 0 s to 51 min 0 s] the ceremonial flame, consisting of fireballs lit by another robot, at a distance of four meters,\u201d said a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The robot features eight adjustable water jets in its central and head regions, with a flexible firehose directed by a control unit on a trailing wheeled cart. Functioning at a rate of 6.6 liters per second, the nozzles expel water with a pressure reaching up to one megapascal. At the tip of the hose, a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}