[RobertRoberts]

>...the primary objective is not to extinguish the fire but to search and rescue for people still missing in there.

20 years ago the tech we have today was science fiction. The idea that every person on the planet could have a multi-camera internet connected device would have been ludicrous.

But I understand your perspective, you seem to actually at the sites where you can see how hard it would be for a robot to achieve the same results as a human. But isn't the hope (for geeks anyways) of the future of tech that robots will be able to save _more_ lives than humans alone?

Also, there's a fire fighting game that got popular a few years back. If this is a harbinger of things to come, firefighters in the future may be using xbox controllers to fight fires, just like they use them to fly drones in war.