Iran-Made Firefighting Robot Costs One-Third of Foreign Counterpart

Mohammad Noroozi, the head of the research center of IAU, told ANA that the center presented six products in mechatronics and robotics for the IAU’s Asreh Omid Event.

The products include training robots, such as football player robots, home service robots, humanoid robots, rescue and firefighting robots, and unmanned submarine robots.

Flying robots are divided into two categories of indoor flying robots that are used for security, search and rescue, and outdoor flying robots for agriculture, spraying, environmental protection, traffic control applications, moving goods and postal packages, and environmental mapping, Noroozi explained.

He pointed out that the service robot is designed for doing warehousing intelligently and automatically, identifying objects using machine vision and artificial intelligence, and picking and transferring to specific locations.

The robots have the advantage of indigenized hardware and software knowledge and artificial intelligence, he added.

Thanks to the indigenized design, the manufacturing costs are more than one-third or half of the similar foreign robots.

Five knowledge-based companies in the fields of electric cars, gaming, entertainment, and industrial robots have been formed by the center, creating jobs for five to ten persons.

More than 50 undergraduate and graduate students are collaborating with the center in part-time or full-time shifts and 10 faculty members are participating in the projects.

Over the past year, in order to realize a resilient and knowledge-based economy, the Vice Presidency for Science and Technology has implemented a series of activities to further develop the ecosystem of innovation and technology in the country.

Over 7,000 knowledge-based and 1,600 creative companies have so far been registered and started operations.

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