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My name is Marcus White . I'm the uh

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public information officer slash fire

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inspector here at Robins Air Force Base

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Fire and emergency services . Our

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organization looks to add artificial

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intelligence to increase our

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capabilities of response when it comes

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to rescue procedures . Hazmat

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mitigation and other miscellaneous

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types of emergencies using our newly

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established robot dog . Our robot dog

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uh that is manufactured by Boston dot

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damage that goes by the name of Spot

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has been online with the fire

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department just a little under a year

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of time and service . Some of the

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capabilities of the dog is allowing us

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to be able to enter into dangerous

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situations , Taskings and jobs on a

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scene that would naturally fatigue our

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firefighters . My

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name is uh Brian Beal . I'm the captain

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here at Robbins Fire Department . I am

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the program lead on the robot dog . The

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battery life is about an hour and a

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half , given the temperature , you know ,

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outside and then different variables as

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far as how we're using it , any kind of

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extended terrain or anything like that ,

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it can walk up and down flights of

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stairs with ease many kind of unstable

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debris that has no problem operating

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around , it does have obstacle

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avoidance . So while you're utilizing

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it , if there's something in its way or

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its path , it will actually navigate

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around it , it does have features if it

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were to fall over to self , right ? It

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can , I mean , you can look up down ,

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it can essentially like wag its tail ,

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go side to side . It has different

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functions also as far as like a demo

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mode where it'll like dance around

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almost and like hop , it's not gonna do

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much . It's just more so showing the

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balance capabilities of it , it does

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have an arm attachment . The arm is one

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of the main features that I think we

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wanted here because a lot of the Hazmat

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calls , um they might be in like a room

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that's like one of these . So it being

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able to open the door by itself and go

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in and have the five gas capabilities

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that it does . It alleviates us having

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to go in for recon , which in theory

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saves us a ton of time . It has thermal

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capabilities . So we can see a wide

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range of different heat sources whether

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that's looking for a potential victim

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and a structure . Yeah , with us having

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the five gas detector on the back of

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the dog , we were able to use the spot

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cam 360 to look down at the screen to

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highlight various five gasses that we

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might be detect , detecting whether it

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be different bo CS carbon monoxide and

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we can relay that to the command staff

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so they can see exactly what kind of

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chemicals we're getting into in a

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certain environment . And then we can

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take appropriate action . We can have

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our research team start looking up

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possible chemicals if it is a substance

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how to direct crews to court on the

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area as far as the safe distances that

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we need . If we need to evacuate

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buildings and kind of go from there .