BurnBot raised $20 million as it works toward developing technology that can help prevent wildfires.
The startup was founded in 2022 and makes remote controlled vehicles that can munch up and burn away invasive plants and other unwanted vegetation.
Before BurnBot, firefighters and land owners had to use expensive, time-consuming and more dangerous options like grazing away the vegetation , burning it, applying herbicides or removing vegetation mechanically with a mix of equipment and manual labor. Within the chambers of the RX are several rows of torches that emit blue flames, and adjust the heat levels precisely to zap away unwanted vegetation or other fuels on the ground below. The chambers of the BurnBot RX also trap and torch away the smoke that comes from burning vegetation, so it doesn't pollute the air in surrounding communities. When the torching is done, the RX sprays water repeatedly to extinguish any remaining embers.
BurnBot plans to conduct a prescribed burn this Friday in San Diego, a project for CalTrans, the state's transportation agency. It also plans for another burn forPG&E spends upward of $1 billion on "vegetation management" each year. Kevin Johnson, who leads the company's Wildfire Brice Muenzer, a battalion chief with CalFire in Monterey, California, said massive fires in the state and throughout the U.S. over the past decade have been partly caused and certainly exacerbated by overzealous elimination of smaller fires, including ritual fires from indigenous communities.
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