Firefighting
All of the following remote-control firefighting robots must be able to be off the fire truck, fully operational, and proceeding to the burning building at a speed of at least 30 mph within 15 seconds of the truck coming to a stop at the fire (thus requiring the robot operator's station to be within the truck's seating area so the operator can get all the robots up and ready on the way to the fire); climb stairs; be inserted through upper story windows by fire platform (skylift) trucks; be dropped onto roofs by helicopters (exempting the fire-hose fire suppression robot); drive across ten yards of burning wood floor; continue to operate at peak performance in the maximum heat a burning building can generate for at least five minutes; withstand falling three stories (30 feet); and see through flames, smoke, and pitch darkness.
All of the following firefighting challenges have the following future challenges:
1) First fire department to use that challenge’s robot as it was intended in a real building fire. Not a practice fire. In addition for the rescue robot challenge, it must remove and rescue an unconscious person.
2) First fire department to make it department policy to always first use that challenge’s robots for its intended purpose instead of using human firefighters.
3) First fire department to not require the operator of that challenge’s robot to also be a regular firefighter.
4) First volunteer fire department to use that challenge's robot in a real building fire. Not a practice fire. In addition for the rescue robot challenge, it must remove and rescue an unconscious person.
5) First volunteer fire department to make it department policy to always first use that challenge’s robots for its intended purpose instead of using human firefighters.
6) First volunteer fire department to not require the operator of that challenge’s robot to also be a regular volunteer firefighter.
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Taking all of the following four firefighting challenges together as a whole, the first entertainment production company to produce for a:
1) Half-hour cartoon TV series of a fire department that has all four firefighting robots and uses them to fight fires. Must premiere on a US broadcast or cable TV network. [Expect the robots to have their own personalities.]
2) Hour-long live-action prime-time science-fiction TV drama series about a fire department that has all four firefighting robots and uses them to fight fires. Must premiere on a US broadcast or cable TV network. [Expect the series to be about the "old guard" resisting change. The show would be best done as a science fiction show BEFORE actual firefighting robots become a reality. This made possible through the "magic" of TV. The robots on this show very likely won't really work BUT, through use of special and visual effects, the producers will make it appear that the robots work perfectly.]
3) Major motion picture (live-action or animation) about a fire department that has all four firefighting robots and uses them to fight fires. Movie must premiere in at least 4,000 theaters.
4) Hour-long prime-time reality TV show about a real-life fire department that has all four firefighting robots and uses them to fight fires. Must premiere on a US broadcast or cable TV network.
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