Meet Byte, the AI robot learning to battle wildfires

Training robot Byte, who which costs approximately €100,000 (RM492,170) and weighs 25 kilograms, is intended to provide firefighters with detailed information about fire scenarios in the future. — dpa

BERLIN: "If we were to send the autonomous robot towards a fire now, it would simply walk through it and be destroyed."

Pirk, as head of the "Wildfire Twins" research project, aims to teach machines to autonomously navigate wildfires and extinguish them using artificial intelligence (AI) in the coming years.