The defense and security company QintetiQ has developed a range of firefighting robots. It has been testing them in England.

Last week one of the robots was taken to a live incident at Membury Airfield to assess a situation involving gas canisters. The firefighting robots will be particularly useful in potentially explosive situations.

A two year contract is being made between QinetiQ and the London Fire Brigade.

I wonder if the QinetiQ robots will be at all like the firefighting bots from Segway?

Click through for more photos of the robot in action.

Link via (Newbury Today) via (Londonist)