Meet the $150,000 B2 robot dog that can put out fires with a cannon

This metal dog is sure to attract some attention.

A Automated fire dog The project developed on Long Island would be able to douse fires with water cannons and withstand temperatures of up to 572 degrees — but it will cost about $150,000.

The three-foot-tall, 150-pound dog, the B2, can travel at 12 mph on all types of terrain and is designed to use an attachment to blast pressurized water at flames from a distance of 100 feet, its Long Island-based developer told The Post.

“This thing is really resilient… getting into a burning building is very easy,” said Teddy Haggerty, founder of tech hardware company Robostore, of Plainview.

He continued: “Right now, we have designed a prototype of a water cannon that is placed on top of the robot that is connected to a fire truck… and we can move to high-risk environments.”

The 30-year-old, who has cousins ​​who work in firefighting, added: “The main goal is to put it somewhere you don’t want the body to be – and now you have a cannon in the way.”

The B2, made by Unitree and developed exclusively in the US by Haggerty, is expected to hit the open market in America by April 2026 after an earlier version was launched in Asia.

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The kinks of the B2 still need to be worked out, as high water pressure bursts can cause the dog to tip over during shooting.

However, it is designed to correct its errors through machine learning and artificial intelligenceas demonstrated on Tuesday when the B2 fell while spraying a target during a demo.

“The second time, it actually corrected itself,” Haggerty explained. “He sat there and squatted like a real dog, and said, ‘Hey, this is what I’m supposed to be.’

Hagerty’s machine is also equipped with thermal imaging sensors and other important mapping sensors that can detect trapped spaces inside a heavily burning building.

“If you walk into a dark room, you can see the heat, you can see bodies,” he said, adding that the B2, which can hold 200 pounds, can also be equipped with a robotic arm and acoustic sensors to detect gas leaks.

Manorville Fire Chief Chris Steele is eager to get his hands on the robotic dog to make life easier for his volunteer department.

“These days, house fires are getting hotter and faster, especially with people charging lithium-ion batteries at home,” Steele said.

“So having something like this, where I don’t have to send someone out to look for someone, would be great,” added the president, who said B2 could pay for itself.

Steele also said it could provide quick relief to many of LI’s other volunteer departments that are “harming members.”

Riverhead City Councilman Ken Rothwell, a firefighter with more than 20 years in Suffolk County who has seen the B2 in action, also wants to see the robotic good boy put to use in his neck of the woods, along with his government colleague, Councilman Robert Kern.

“This device has the ability to protect All our firefighters “On the front line,” Rothwell said, adding that he hopes to see B2 manufactured locally in an industrial park in nearby Calverton to boost the local economy as well.

The B2 won’t take professional firefighting jobs either, according to Haggerty, who more than anything is fine-tuning his range of motion before his spring debut.

“The reality is that it will make people very charged,” he said.