With the development of cutting-edge technology and the increasing market demand, robots are accelerating, and more and more robots are beginning to replace people to do dangerous or inefficient jobs, such as checking underground pipeline leaks.
Recently, a robot that looks like a badminton is available to check the pipeline leaks and is very convenient to use.
The robot comes from the PipeGuard research team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). It is a flexible pipeline robot that is inexpensive and has a wide range of applications. It can easily access pipes of various materials, including wood, concrete, plastics, etc. The research results recently won a $10,000 prize in the MIT competition, and the future is boundless.
In fact, the robot has a development cycle of up to 9 years and has undergone rigorous testing. Its main construction consists of a soft rubber casing with battery and storage, a flexible support that measures the size of the pipe and changes its size, and a thin film Sensor.
The way the robot works is also easy to understand: put it into the pipe, it will "swim" along the pipe, if the pipe breaks, the flexible support and the sensor can be identified, the position is marked, the staff can be precise Maintenance is achieved without having to dig up the entire pipe in the traditional way.
The robot has accurately detected leaks in a rusty, 1.6-kilometer-long pipeline in Saudi Arabia, and plans to conduct more rigorous testing in a 30-centimeter-wide pipeline in Monterrey, Mexico. The PipeGuard team said that the next version of the robot will be a collapsible version that can be used for more sized pipes.
Although it is a robot, the direction of the PipeGuard team is very cautious. The robot is only used to improve the detection efficiency and cannot be repaired, which means that the work of the workers will not be replaced. Obviously, humans welcome such robots.
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