I suspect they are just collecting intelligence about our emergency response units.

Trust no robot!

"The team is provided in support of the London fire brigade by QinetiQ"

who said no good comes form selling state secrets

Pity they couldn't stop their special response vehicle from burning!

can't even keep his kneejerk antimilitary bias from showing on what can be a very effective and promising civil technology application. He can't rant about the tech so manages to appease his masters with some political statement on what he remembers as the first deployment of these devices, in combat. of course completely missing the fact the technology was already tested and deployed in civilian police forces for bomb disposal-the same field LP claims to have experience in.

An order of technology review without the drooling masturbatory leftist critique to go, please! It's starting to smell a lot like Slashdot in here.

When they go rogue, will they simply sound an all clear when the tank is still dangerously hot?

That, and the digger-bot will push the tank down the stairs towards the fleshoids below.

I for one welcome our new hose-equipped robotic overlords

Anonymous Coward, I love you, will you marry me? Or is that incest?

Do you reckon these fireman robots all have 'other' jobs, like housemoving etc?