Stormwater culverts can be dangerous places, due to hazards such as crumbling concrete ceilings, submerged obstacles, and toxic gas accumulations. The PIPE-i robot was designed with that fact in mind, ...

Kyoto-based Tmsuk Corporation (Tmsuk) has announced the development of a new legged pipe inspection robot called "SPD-X." The new robot can fit through pipes bigger than 7.87 inches (20 cm) in ...

Hidden from sight, under the UK’s roads, buildings, and parks, lie about one million kilometers of pipes. Maintaining and repairing these pipes require about 1.5 million road excavations a year, which ...

Viktor Doychinov works for the University of Leeds as a Research Fellow. He is funded through the Pipebots project, EPSRC Grant EP/S016813/1. Hidden from sight, under the UK’s roads, buildings and ...

A camera affixed to a robot captured an alligator hiding in a Florida stormwater pipe. On May 5, the City of Oviedo sent a four-wheel robotic camera to investigate "anomalies" under the roadway after ...

A pair of autonomous robots, developed by Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute to characterise uranium deposits in process pipes, could save tens of millions of dollars in decommissioning ...