NAUB student develops autonomous robot to fight indoor fires

By Ibrahim Hassan-Wuyo
A final-year Information Technology student of the Nigerian Army University Biu (NAUB), Muhammad Inuwa Abdullahi, has developed an autonomous firefighting robot designed to detect and suppress small indoor fires without direct human intervention.
Abdullahi, an indigene of Pantami in Gombe State, developed the robotic system as his final-year project using an Arduino Uno microcontroller platform.
The robot is designed to detect flames, navigate autonomously towards the source of a fire and activate a water pump to suppress it before it spreads.
The project demonstrates the practical application of robotics, embedded systems and automation to fire detection an...