In a year fraught with record-breaking fires in California, the Los Angeles Fire Department introduced the first robotic firefighting vehicle in the United States.
The robot, dubbed Thermite RS3, was announced last week after its skills were put to the test in a live fire, according to an LAFD press release. Shortly before the press conference announcing the robot, it was sent to help out with a “major Emergency commercial structure fire” in Downtown Los Angeles’s fashion district.
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