| Every year, firefighters die fighting fires to save lives, | | | | home-tracking device. Robotic tractors could go |
| but what if firefighters didn't have to die to save | | | | through the rubble and retrieve the pods. |
| others? What if we had robotic firefighting equipment | | | | We already have firefighting aircraft, but what if those |
| that used unmanned ground vehicle technologies - | | | | aircraft were unmanned aircraft - what difference |
| what if we used unmanned aerial vehicles or UAVs to | | | | would it make? It would be safer, and we would not |
| put out wildfires to save our trees? We have these | | | | have to risk pilots lives to do the flying and the robots |
| technologies now, and it is just a matter of allocating | | | | would not get tired. Plus, the unmanned aerial vehicles |
| some research and development dollars and making it | | | | would be less expensive to manufacture or because |
| available. | | | | they would not have all the pilot controls and it would |
| In a burning building, a robot can go and find people | | | | save a third of the cost. |
| who are trapped or in burning rooms and open up like | | | | Additionally, the robotic equipment would perform |
| a pod and the people can get in. The pod would | | | | better, because they didn't have the weight of the |
| protect him as the building burned around them. If the | | | | pilots, that means they could take extra firefighting |
| building collapsed they would be safe inside with | | | | retardant or Phoschek. Let's use robotic firefighting |
| oxygen, and all they would have to do is wait until the | | | | UGVs and UAVs to put out fires and to save our |
| firefighters in cleanup crew could dig them out later. | | | | trees. |
| Each pod would be found quite easily due to a | | | | |