India, May 17 -- In a major step towards overhauling Delhi's fire safety infrastructure, chief minister Rekha Gupta and home minister Ashish Sood on Friday reviewed a demonstration of advanced firefighting robots-including the indigenously developed Automated Robotic Mist Omni Utility Rakshak (ARMOUR)-at the Delhi Secretariat. The exercise comes as the BJP-led government accelerates efforts to modernise the capital's emergency response systems with state-of-the-art equipment.

The ARMOUR robot is an automated firefighting vehicle equipped with high-pressure water mist technology designed to tackle fires in high-risk and hard-to-access zones. Also showcased were portable high-pressure mist systems-compact, mobile units that disperse fine w...