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One hopes that they had thought of that, but who knows? Looking at the warehouse videos, it’s clear that under the robots is a vast sea of individual towers of
by pja 8y ago
One hopes that they had thought of that, but who knows?
Looking at the warehouse videos, it’s clear that under the robots is a vast sea of individual towers of plastic boxes, all packed in tightly. I suspect that once that plastic was burning merrily, it would be very hard to stop & the heat would start cooking off the lithium batteries in the robots above. Hard to see how a sprinkler system can prevent fire from taking hold deep inside those towers of boxes, if that’s what happened.
- kylegordon 8y agoA fire detection camera system could have picked out the heat plume in a short amount of time, and parked the robots as far away as possible from it. The article even comments on how cold the warehouse was, so any heat from fire in 'the hive' should have been easily detectable. My bets are that it started somewhere totally different and unrelated to the robot system. Will be interesting to see why their system failed.
- smileypete 8y agoCould the robots bring buckets of water to dump on the fire? :) I guess there's a lot of isocyanate foam insulation, once that gets going no sprinkler is going to help.