via The Verge - All Posts by Andrew Webster on 3/8/12
We first caught a glimpse of the Navy's robot firefighter during our look at Virgina Tech's Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory, and now the Navy itself has released some more details about the robot and its future testing plans. Called Shipboard Autonomous Firefighting Robot (or SAFFiR for short), the robot utilizes a system called "force control," which allows its AI to tell its motor to exert a specific amount of force in a certain direction. This, combined with titanium springs designed to simulate a human tendon, should give SAFFiR the mobility necessary to navigate the rocky terrain of a Navy ship.
But there's more to the robot than just its legs. The Naval Research Laboratory is also working with both Virginia Tech and the...
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