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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00:00This is the first-person perspective of what could someday soon be the
00:07firefighting, uh, dragon of the future. This is the Dragon Firefighter, the new
00:1213-foot long inferno quenching robot being developed in Japan. It's basically
00:16a remote-controlled fire hose, one that can enter burning buildings and release
00:20a literal torrent of water without ever putting human lives in danger. And the
00:24coolest thing is that the water jets actually allow the robot to fly, sort of
00:27like a water-propelled Iron Man, spraying water at a rate of 1.4 gallons a second.
00:32It also has a thermal imaging camera on its nose, letting firefighters identify
00:37heat sources in need of liquid quenching. It has been in development since 2016,
00:41with the team taking away some crucial bits of data throughout the experimental
00:44process, namely improving the oscillation dampeners and the hose's thermal
00:48insulation. But they're not done yet. According to the Dragon Firefighter's
00:51developers, they estimate another 10 years of iteration before this flying
00:55robot will be released to fight fires in the wild. Still, it's a mean proof of
00:59concept, and something that could someday save the lives of countless firefighters
01:04around the world.