The Fire Department of the City of New York (FDNY) recently made headlines with the hiring of two prized recruits. Only the firefighters in question weren’t humans; they were robots. Robot dogs, to be exact.
Billed as the “future of fire safety and rescue,” the computerized canines crawl into burning and collapsed buildings to retrieve victims. They also can detect radiological and nuclear material, toxic gas and other hazardous material.
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