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    A firefighting beetle robot

    A firefighting beetle robot

    According to Popular Science, German researchers have designed firefighting robots mimicking beetles. The OLE robotic beetle (short for ‘Offroad Löscheinheit’ — which means ‘off-road extinguishing apparatus’ in German) has been developed at the University of Magdeburg-Stendal. The OLE would be autonomous and guided by GPS, infrared and heat sensors and could be equipped with tanks of water and powdered fire-extinguishing agents.’ According to the developers, such a robot would cost between $125 and $200K. But a small army of 30 OLEs could survey a 7,000 square kilometers area. (Update: April 9, 2008) Alexander Schoekel, an alert reader, sent me a message about the payload of this firefighting robot. Look at the end of this post for more details. But read more…

    original article via http://blogs.zdnet.com

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      According to Popular Science, German researchers have designed firefighting robots mimicking beetles. The OLE robotic beetle (short for ‘Offroad Löscheinheit’ — which means ‘off-road extinguishing apparatus’ in German) has been developed at the University of Magdeburg-Stendal. The OLE would be autonomous and guided by GPS, infrared and heat sensors and could be equipped with tanks [...]

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