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Those things are improving every week. Self-powered robots will exceed human strength and endurance in a few years with steadily improving battery power/kg (metal-air batteries are already better than gas-powered engines). AI for autonomous robots is the current Darpa challenge. And for firefighting, the automation doesn't have to extend as far as life-or-death decisions; those can be made remotely.



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