Make Wildfires Less Bad.
Where We Started
Conceptualizing Change
Wildfire Robotics started with a question.
In 2017, Co-Founder and CTO Allan Richardson stood on the shore of Lake Windermere, watching helicopters refill bambi buckets for a nearby wildfire.
He wondered why, in the 30 years he had spent watching this annual spectacle, we were still relying on large, expensive machines to move seemingly minuscule amounts of water compared to the scale and intensity of modern wildfires?
With a background in industrial robotics, he believed there had to be a safer, more efficient way to move water to a wildfire.
Wildfire Robotics officially formed in 2021, driven by a growing ugrency to create scalable wildfire mitigation tools.
Since then, our team has grown - conducting pilot demonstrations and working alongside like-minded organizations to build a reliable system that reduces risks to our forests, firefighters, and communities.
Our Mission
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Where We're Going
Continued Development and Deployment
Our team is grounded in three realities: wildfires are becoming more severe, existing resources cannot scale to meet the challenge, and new solutions are needed to both contain destructive fire and expand the use of beneficial fire. These conditions demand a different approach to wildfire mitigation.
With the support of our partners and funders, that work has moved from concept to continued development. Their backing has enabled us to grow our team and advance the research and deployment of new technology designed for real-world fire conditions.
Our Team
Our team has a combined 70 years of experience in industrial robotic development, and a background in forestry and fire. We have successfully developed, built, and scaled new technologies in relevant industries, and are now focusing our expertise on wildfire response.
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Peter is a natural leader, releationship builder, and innovator. Instrumental in the previous sale of a previous industrial robotics scale-up.
Allan is a serial innovator and tenured executive, with decades of experience in industrial robotics. Principal inventor.
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Key lead in detailed mechanical engineering design.
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