{"id":35090,"date":"2017-03-05T23:42:29","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T07:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/in-the-face-of-danger-escher-virginia-techs-firefighting-robot-primed-for-extreme-heat-conditions"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:10:13","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:10:13","slug":"in-the-face-of-danger-escher-virginia-techs-firefighting-robot-primed-for-extreme-heat-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/in-the-face-of-danger-escher-virginia-techs-firefighting-robot-primed-for-extreme-heat-conditions","title":{"rendered":"In the face of danger: ESCHER, Virginia Tech\u2019s firefighting robot primed for extreme heat conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/in-the-face-of-danger-escher-virginia-techs-firefighting-robot-primed-for-extreme-heat-conditions.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Virginia Tech\u2019s Visual Arts Department and Engineering Department have been joining forces to design ESCHER, a firefighting robot.<\/p>\n<p>ESCHER was originally created at the beginning of 2015 in the Terrestrial Robotics Engineering and Controls Laboratory. ESCHER is short for Electronic Series Compliant Humanoid for Emergency Response.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe special application for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vthumanoidrobot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">this project<\/a> is the idea that ESCHER could go on naval ships and fight fires and go places that would normally be hazardous to humans,\u201d said Meaghan Dee, assistant professor and chair of Visual Communications. \u201cIf you think of something like the Fukushima Disaster, you could have just sent in a robot, and that\u2019s what these emergency robots are designed to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.collegiatetimes.com\/news\/in-the-face-of-danger-escher-virginia-tech-s-firefighting\/article_d0430488-fec8-11e6-a22d-33f074202d79.html\">http:\/\/www.collegiatetimes.com\/news\/in-the-face-of-danger-es...02d79.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia Tech\u2019s Visual Arts Department and Engineering Department have been joining forces to design ESCHER, a firefighting robot. ESCHER was originally created at the beginning of 2015 in the Terrestrial Robotics Engineering and Controls Laboratory. ESCHER is short for Electronic Series Compliant Humanoid for Emergency Response. \u201cThe special application for this project is the idea [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35090","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35090"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58492,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35090\/revisions\/58492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}