Rising the level of fire security, reduction of fire risks to socially acceptable level, reduction of the number of the dead and the injures in the result of fire, as well as reduction of damage from fires are achieved applying new technologies, such as mobile fire robots. To assure good results in the scientific research conducted within the framework of this field, the contemporary trends are defined and the relevant research methods are selected. The result of such a research is the creation of experimental prototype of a fire robot.