An autonomous robot is one that has its own decision-making capacity to perform tasks such as moving, stopping, pressing a button, or some other specific purpose. Autonomous robots consist of artificial intelligence programs to perform decision computing. Researchers are interested in building a new model for autonomous robots. The more general we make an autonomous robot model, the more attention and effort goes in its development. However, autonomous robot development still needs a specific purpose so it can execute its goals.

An autonomous firefighter robot is one autonomous robot model with the specific purpose of finding and putting out fires. In this chapter, we'll learn and explore how to build an autonomous robot for firefighting.

A sample firefighter robot implementation is Thermite 3.0. This robot has a water sprinkler to extinguish fires. You can explore this robot on the official website, http://www.firefightrobot.com. This is what it looks like: