This is the “Dragon Firefighter,” the new 13-foot-long inferno-quenching robot being developed in Japan. It’s basically a flying, remote controlled fire hose that can enter burning buildings and release a literal torrent of water without ever putting human lives in danger.
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00:03 This is the first-person perspective of what could someday soon be the firefighting, uh,
00:08 dragon of the future. This is the Dragon Firefighter, the new 13-foot-long,
00:13 inferno-quenching robot being developed in Japan. It's basically a remote-controlled fire hose,
00:18 one that can enter burning buildings and release a literal torrent of water without ever putting
00:22 human lives in danger. And the coolest thing is that the water jets actually allow the robot to
00:26 fly, sort of like a water-propelled Iron Man, spraying water at a rate of 1.4 gallons a second.
00:32 It also has a thermal imaging camera on its nose, letting firefighters identify heat sources in
00:37 need of liquid quenching. It has been in development since 2016, with the team taking
00:41 away some crucial bits of data throughout the experimental process, namely improving the
00:46 oscillation dampeners and the hose's thermal insulation. But they're not done yet. According
00:50 to the Dragon Firefighter's developers, they estimate another 10 years of iteration before
00:55 this flying robot will be released to fight fires in the wild. Still, it's a mean proof of concept,
01:00 and something that could someday save the lives of countless firefighters around the world.