. >> okay tavian, we're in need of your assistance, please follow me to the supply room. >> okay. >>s is octavia. it's a robot created by the navy center for applied research in artificial intelligence, and it's designed to be a shoulder-to-shoulder robot for one of the biggest threats to ships in the navy. fire. this robot responds to verbal and hand commands to help put out fires, but the thing is, it's creepy looking. >> yeah. absolutely creepy, but if you've got to stand there and go like this -- to direct his robot where to go, why can't you just put the fire out yourselves? >> this is early technology. i think as it gets developed you're not going to have to sit there and flag this thing down. >> the fire is in the center on the floor. >> described by speech and gesture. >> no. instead of going -- the fire is in the center of the floor -- just take a fire extinguisher and -- just put it out i. agree with you there. again, i have to say, i think this saul very early testing phases. >> using two cameras octavia is able to localize the fire allowing her to target it and compress a