I'm not sure the Boston bird can take any significant amount of heat or water If you take an architecture developed for warehouse running, you'd naturally have

I'm not sure the Boston bird can take any significant amount of heat or water If you take an architecture developed for warehouse running, you'd naturally have to adapt it for fire fighting. If you're not assuming that this sort of re-engineering needs to be done for a shirtsleeves R&D device being applied to the demanding context of fire fighting, then please think 1 or 2 more steps ahead when engineering. In short: I'm trying to talk about some specific modifications to an existing example and its effect on maneuvering, as a shorthand to discuss a general architecture, not all of the contextual specifics. I would be open to discussing how the contextual specifics would be applied, but to go directly to, "won't work -- specifics!..." is just throwing up roadblocks to be a pedant. to say nothing of its ability to navigate a floor strewn with (burning) debris Which is why I mentioned the bogey and extra wheels as in the iBot.