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.
00:24And the coolest thing is that the water jets actually allow the robot to fly, sort of like a water propelled Iron Man spraying 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, namely 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.
