ROBEE--High-Rise Buildings Fire-Fighting Robot，a design by the Innovative Team of ZZULI, was shortlisted as one of the Top 19 in Braun Prize Industrial Design, 2015. This project was under the guidance of Qu Xinbo and Cui Xiaofei, two teachers from the School of Art and Design and it is the first time for ZZULI’s students to be awarded in the world-renowned competition.

When the BraunPrize was established in 1968, it was Germany’s first international competition to promote the importance of industrial design and the work of young designers. Braun’s continuous commitment to this cause has been highly regarded by the design world and the design-aware public ever since. The objective of the BraunPrize today is to promote the work of young and established designers from all over the world, to value the work of design schools, design teams and individuals and to help develop a greater appreciation of the factors and criteria which make for good product design. Furthermore, it serves to make the ingenuity and creativity of designers accessible to the public and to provide a link between designers and industry or potential clients. In sponsoring the BraunPrize, Braun and Procter & Gamble seek to highlight the importance of industrial design in improving people´s quality of life around the world and finding solutions for the problems we are facing.

Projects by ZZULI’s students have been awarded repeatedly in Red Pot, IF and IDEA Design Competition, which together with Braun Prize Industrial Design are universally recognized as the top 4 Competitions in the field of design.

About the Project: Robee works as the assistant of firefighters working in high-rise buildings. It can access rooms in high-rise buildings by flying outside the structure and can accurately detect the exact fire source. Robee can also detect the vital signs of any victims trapped in the fire and send messages to the firefighters’control station.