'Protect our brave firefighters,' University of Texas students create firefighting robot

AUSTIN (KXAN) --- University of Texas students created a robot that can help protect firefighters. Their startup is called Paradigm Robotics.

The technology is meant to assist with search and rescues in structure fires or other dangerous situations.

Just last week, the Austin Fire Department reported two firefighters were injured after searching for a person inside a house fire.

The invention is called FireBot.

FireBot

Founder Siddharth Thakur...