Hyundai Motor Group Chairman Chung Eui-sun Donates Unmanned Fire Robots to the National Fire Agency

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Hyundai Motor Group will expand its support by donating "Unmanned Fire Robots," a remote fire extinguishing equipment, to ensure the safety of firefighters at the fire site and help them fight it efficiently. Chairman Chung Eui-sun also stepped up to the scene.

Hyundai Motor Group held an unmanned firefighting robot donation ceremony at 119 Special Rescue Team in Namyangju, Gyeonggi Province on the 24th, attended by key officials including Chairman Chung Eui-sun, President Sung Kim, Hyundai Rotem President Lee Yong-bae, and Acting Fire Chief Kim Seung-ryong. The four unmanned firefighting robots donated this time were jointly developed by Hyundai Motor Group and the National Fire Agency, and were manufactured to increase the efficiency of saving lives and suppressing fires.

The robot is based on Hyundai Rotem's electrified multi-purpose unmanned vehicle "HR-Sherpa" and has specialized functions for fire suppression, including tarps, self-spraying systems, vision improvement cameras, and remote controllers. In particular, its own spray system forms a water film outside the equipment to maintain the internal temperature at 50-60 degrees Celsius even in high-temperature environments of 500-800 degrees Celsius, enabling close-range firefighting operations. In addition, infrared sensor-based cameras have secured the performance of identifying ignition points or rescuers even in thick smoke.

Two of the donated robots are currently deployed to 119 special rescue teams in the Seoul metropolitan area and Yeongnam, and the other two will be deployed to the fire headquarters in southern Gyeonggi Province and Chungcheongnam-do in early March. Hyundai Motor Group expects the robot to perform initial suppression and on-site search missions in large fire or collapse areas that are difficult for firefighters to access, and in enclosed underground spaces that lack oxygen, greatly reducing the risk of injuries to firefighters.

Chairman Chung Eui-sun emphasized at the donation ceremony that he would not spare the necessary technology and support for firefighters to carry out their duties in a safe environment. In addition to the donation of unmanned firefighting robots, Hyundai Motor Group has continued to provide firefighting support by donating 10 firefighters' recovery support vehicles in 2023 and 250 "EV drill lances" for fighting electric vehicle fires in 2024. It also plans to provide vehicles and rehabilitation equipment to the National Fire Hospital, which is scheduled to open in June, to help injured firefighters recover.

As such, Hyundai Motor Group continues its social responsibility to create a safe society by supporting firefighters, the public interest heroes of our society, through mobility that combines core technologies.

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