Robots Conquer Fires, Jungle, Sandstorms in New Navy Training Ground

The Navy's "Octavia" robot fights a fire at the new Laboratory for Autonomous Systems Research in Washington, D.C.Photo: Mark Riffee/Wired

This is Octavia. A disturbingly lifelike robot, she’s stationed in the Navy’s brand-new Laboratory for Autonomous Systems Research (or, yes, LASR) to teach human sailors how to work with robots and to learn, in turn, how to work with human sailors. Oh, and she fights fires — like the one a Navy scientist lights in a cavernous hangar bay.

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