Submission + - U.S. Navy to test humanoid robotic firefighters (networkworld.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Some day, if there's a fire on a U.S. naval ship, a humanoid robot may rush in to put it out.That's the vision coming out of the U.S. Navy's Office of Naval Research, which will host a test of robotic firefighters this summer. Firefighting robots would take on high-risk tasks, such as going into an intensely hot and smoky environment, that a human sailor would normally have to do. The Navy plans to test the robots on the USS Shadwell, a decommissioned landing ship docked in Mobile, Ala., where the Navy conducts some of its damage control research. The Navy has been on a roll with high tech investments of late, including for a laser-powered weapon. http://www.networkworld.com/co...