New firefighting robot dog being made on Long Island

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00:00So this is based off the Unitree V2 platform, which is an industrial quadruped robot.

00:04And right now we have prototyped a cannon that goes on top, that hooks up to the fire truck, and basically just sprays water.

00:12The whole point of this is to walk into higher situations, walk right into a place where you don't want to put a body,

00:17and now you basically have a cannon on the go.

00:20So this is one modular piece that we've had to the V2.

00:24We also have thermal sensors, thermal cameras, gas sensors, oxygen sensors.

00:29So it really is like a full search-and-rescue robot.

00:33Yeah, so we are a company, RoboStore. We're in development with Unitree, and we handle a lot of the U.S. operations here.

00:40This is a project that's been going on for about a year.

00:43It's a little bit about the V2.

00:45There are other versions that have, like, included this and are coming out,

00:50but this is the first one that's technically NFPA-approved, so the Ancron piping on top is all NFPA-approved and out of the box.

00:59But a lot of the ones that you see that have just come out after they start from the prototypes are mostly in Asia and Europe.

01:05The regulations are a little different there, so they're much more developed,

01:08but due to the regulations in the United States, we have to be really careful about what we're actually putting on top of this.

01:13There's a lot of work to be done, but the chassis, the V2, is, like, ready to go into work.

01:18It's a real industrial unit.

01:20It can hold over 100 pounds.

01:22It's self-righting.

01:24This is just a ton of pressure on it.

01:25It's holding over 60 pounds and hundreds of pounds of pressure.

01:29But it's really cool to be able to just try this out and see what's wrong.

01:33We're taking a lot of notes, too, like, even to the foot pads and stuff that we have to adjust,

01:37and the pressure on the motors.

01:39These are all things, like, Commelo's taking into consideration.