It is April and it must be time to put out some fires. I am at annual Trinity College Fire Fighting Robot Contest in Hartford, CN. I am one of many technical speakers at this year's symposium. The ...

From apps to robots, technology is playing a key role in the fight against the Los Angeles wildfires. A computer simulation of a fire as it spreads, designed to give insight to crews on the scene, was ...

Each week, we spotlight a cool innovation recommended by some of the industry's top tech writers. This week's pick is a fire-fighting robot. "Fires have an unfortunate habit of happening in places ...

A robotic "dog of war" is the star of footage recently uploaded to Chinese state media. In the 11-second video, a mechanized quadruped can be seen taking point position as flesh-and-blood soldiers ...