Friday, December 15, 2000, updated at 08:45(GMT+8)
Sci-Edu
China Develops Unmanned Fire Engine
China has recently developed its first multi-functional unmanned fire engine, becoming one of few countries to master this technology.
The fire engine was designed to deal with special fire disasters that involve high temperatures, poisonous gases, or explosions, and will be best applied to petrochemical and airport fires.
An electromagnetic wave send-receive installation enables people to remotely control the fire-engine up to a distance of 150 meters.
This fire engine was designed independently by the Anhui Mingguang Fire-fighting Equipment Factory.