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.
00:00This is the first-person perspective of what could someday soon be the firefighting, uh, dragon, of the future.
00:10This is the Dragon Firefighter, the new 13-foot-long, inferno-quenching robot being developed in Japan.
00:16It's basically a remote-controlled fire hose, one that can enter burning buildings and release a literal torrent of water without ever putting human lives in danger.
00:23And the coolest thing is that the water jets actually allow the robot to fly, sort of like a water-propelled Iron Man,
00:29spraying water at a rate of 1.4 gallons a second.
00:33It also has a thermal imaging camera on its nose, letting firefighters identify heat sources in need of liquid quenching.
00:39It has been in development since 2016, with the team taking away some crucial bits of data throughout the experimental process,
00:45namely improving the oscillation dampeners and the hose's thermal insulation.
00:49But they're not done yet.
00:50According to the Dragon Firefighter's developers, they estimate another 10 years of iteration before this flying robot will be released to fight fires in the wild.
00:58Still, it's a mean proof of concept and something that could someday save the lives of countless firefighters around the world.
