News Articles with Category: Applications
October 6, 2014 – via DARPA
TRAPS is a fixed passive-sonar node designed to achieve large-area coverage by exploiting advantages of operating from the deep seafloor, and is claimed to offer major benefits to the navy’s distributed network system forward-deployed acoustic surveillance mission.
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August 23, 2014 – via US Coast Guard
We deployed the Wave Glider to record data and monitor the movement of ice which would be useful information for responders during an oil spill in the ice, but the USV can be outfitted with cameras or other types of sensor payloads depending on its task
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August 21, 2014 – via WHOI
REMUS SharkCam is the first underwater robot capable of tracking and filming sharks and other marine animals up close in the wild. With six cameras total mounted on the vehicle, it recorded dramatic panoramic footage of large great white sharks attacking the underwater robot. (WHOI Oceanographic Systems Laboratory)
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June 24, 2014 – via NOAA
“This is the very first time that we used our AUVs to look for living creatures,” says Rob Downs, AUV project manager at NOAA’s Office of Coastal Survey.
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May 2, 2014 – via Sonardyne
The Consortium will develop an integrated leak detection system that is capable of both wide area coverage by AUVs/ASVs (Autonomous Underwater Vehicles/Autonomous Surface vehicles) and continuous automated monitoring of high risk areas.
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April 16, 2014 – via Royal Navy
The Maritime Autonomous System Trials Team (MASTT) is the small Portsmouth-based Royal Navy unit testing the new unmanned systems.
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March 31, 2014 – via Defense News
The Pentagon has called for more technology that will enable U.S. military to place assets closer to potential targets without attracting attention.
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March 31, 2014 – via DARPA
DARPA’s Upward Falling Payloads (UFP) program centers on developing deployable, unmanned, nonlethal distributed systems that would lie on the deep-ocean floor in special containers for years at a time
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March 27, 2014 – via DARPA
Officials of the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Arlington, Va., this week released a formal solicitation (DARPA-BAA-14-27) for the second and third phases of the Upward Falling Payloads (UFP) project to hide sensors and other devices on the ocean floor that will last for as long as five years concealed at depths to 20,000 feet.
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November 12, 2013 – via Co.L.Mar
This spring, the company completed the first ALD prototype for installation on an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), with successful trials in a test pool and at sea.
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November 11, 2013 – via Sandia Laboratory
The “Multi-Modal Vehicle Concept” would travel land, sea, and air by transforming itself to accommodate different terrains. Its wings become fins as it dives into water, or underwater paddles that shed casings to reveal wheels as it moves toward land — wheels with the ability to jump 30 feet into the air.
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November 2, 2013 – via Stars and Stripes
The systems will lie on the deep ocean floor in special containers “for years at a time,” the statement said. Their capabilities could include networking, surveillance, disruption, deception, rescue, “or any other mission that benefits from being pre-distributed and hidden.”
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October 28, 2013 – via NAVSEA PMS-406
The PLUS system consists of an undersea network of “sea gliders” and long-endurance Unmanned Undersea Vehicles (UUVs). The UUVs perform as autonomous vessels with long underwater dwell times that carry highly capable sensors. The sea gliders are smaller autonomous vessels that collect the UUV data, and return to the surface to transmit that data to a shore-based collection and processing station.
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September 27, 2013 – via University of Delaware
The AUV can maneuver down to 600 meters, with the echosounder extending through the water another 600 meters for a total squid-detection capability of up to 1,200 meters—or three-quarters of a mile. Compared with sonar more commonly used in AUVs to map the seafloor, the echosounders in the researchers’ new configuration are much more sensitive and can make out shapes as small as 4 centimeters long.
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September 10, 2013 – via Oceanus Magazine
An underwater robot learns how to track great whites
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August 9, 2013 – via WHOI Oceanographic Systems Laboratory
Known as “Shark Cam,” the remote environmental monitoring unit (REMUS) uses an omnidirectional ultra-short baseline navigation system to determine the range, bearing, and depth of a tagged animal.
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August 6, 2013 – via New England Ocean Odyssey
New shark tracker technology where robots (autonomous underwater vehicles- AUVs) follow sharks in our waters
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July 24, 2013 – via Military and Aerospace Electronics
DARPA awarded a contract to Sparton last week for the first phase of the Upward Falling Payloads (UFP) program, which seeks to pre-deploy sensors or non-lethal weapons on the ocean floor sometimes years in advance for surprise deployment among the nation’s naval adversaries during times of war or international tension.
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July 23, 2013 – via DARPA TTO
The Hydra program will develop and demonstrate an unmanned undersea system with a new kine of unmanned-vehicle delivery system that inserts UAVs and UUVs. stealthily into operational environments to respond quickly to situations around the world without putting U.S. military personnel at risk.
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July 16, 2013 – via FedBizOps
The Hydra Proposer’s Day will be held on August 5, 2013 at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory – Kossiakoff Center
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July 16, 2013 – via MBARI
The robotic vehicles used in this experiment include unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), and a Wave Glider from Liquid Robotics of Sunnyvale, California, which glides over the ocean surface.
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June 29, 2013 – via The Gainsville Sun
The submarines are 6 inches by 7 inches and weigh 10.5 ounces. The devices can move in very violent places that aren’t normally accessible, Mohseni said. The submarines contain downloaded programs that tell them where to move
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June 4, 2013 – via an Technological University
LRC is helping develop new techniques for pipeline inspection. The goal: to make pipelines and other types of underwater infrastructure such as electrical or phone cables and municipal water intakes safer.
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June 2, 2013 – via Military and Aerospace Electronics
Navy researchers envision a 40-foot USV host craft that carries four lightweight unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) — two to search for bottom mines, and two for volume search on or near the surface. The USV host craft also would carry as many as 24 expendable neutralizers, payload management, and data processing. Navy experts would extract raw data from the UUVs after each mission for processing aboard the USV and transmission to the LCS for further assessment.
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May 30, 2013 – via Business Week
To build the integrated system the industry envisions, a network of remote monitoring sensors will be needed to transmit data and instructions between the surface and seafloor. Swimming robots, which are now tethered to ships on the surface, will monitor the equipment and perform maintenance, while a new offshore electrical grid will power the submarine operations.
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May 3, 2013 – via University of Delaware
Scientists use satellites, underwater robot to study Atlantic sturgeon migrations
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April 19, 2013 – via Asociación RUVID
“Trident demonstrates the feasibility to attack the problem of intervention in the context of the search and retrieval of any object at an autonomous level regardless of this object.
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April 17, 2013 – via Defense World
Earlier this year, the U.S Navy said that it wants to pack aerial drones and other intelligence-gathering technology into special containers built to withstand deep ocean pressures and distribute them around the world’s seas. The containers will rise to the surface when called into service from a remote location.
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April 15, 2013 – via Kickstarter
Coral-bots are a team of robots that intelligently navigate across a damaged coral reef, transplanting pieces of healthy corals along the way.
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April 10, 2013 – via International Business Times
The robot is an aquatic data center, able to collect, process and transmit the data while at sea.
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April 9, 2013 – via Yale Environment 360
A Stanford University program places satellite tags on marine predators to understand their life cycles and perhaps help protect them as well.
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April 4, 2013 – via Military and Aerospace Electronics
The HAAWC ALA turns the Raytheon Mark 54 torpedo into a glide weapon that the P-8A aircraft can release from high altitudes. As the flying torpedo reaches the water, it jettisons wings and other air-control surfaces and takes on its original role as a smart torpedo that detect, track, and attack enemy submarines autonomously.
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March 15, 2013 – via Swedish Defence Matériel Agency, FMV
The AUV62 system was developed by FMV in partnership with the Swedish Defense Research agency and Saab. During submarine hunting exercise, AUVs could behave like a submarine, both by its sonar echo and its noise. When used as a target during anti-submarine warfare exercises, it transforms the ping the chasing sonars transmit so that they sound like when detecting a submarine. In addition, it can make noises like a submarine. In this way, the cost of training is reduced because crew training no longer requires a real submarine.
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March 14, 2013 – via PAMBuoy
Passive Acoustic Monitoring payload package deployed on the LR Waveglider
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March 8, 2013 – via US Naval Institute Proceedings
The solution is to design, procure, and utilize vessels that minimize the need for our men and women to enter highly contested littoral areas, and to deploy those unmanned vehicles from purpose-built mother ships that are part of an integrated blue-water task force.
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February 22, 2013 – via CMRE
An energy-efficient robotic vehicle debuts as a communications gateway of an experimental network developed by CMRE within the Proud Manta ‘13 framework
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February 19, 2013 – via MBARI
Haddock also hopes to secure funds to attach a SCPI camera onto one of MBARI’s autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV), to collect continuous records of jellies and other animals at various ocean depths.
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October 4, 2012 – via KABC
Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV), or robots, are revolutionizing the science of sharks. Lowe is collaborating Dr. Chris Clark, a computer scientist at Harvey Mudd College, on a three-year shark tracking project.
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September 17, 2012 – via Fast Company
Called “coralbots,” the experimental machines being developed by Scotland’s Heriot-Watt Ocean Systems Lab are being designed to use swarm behavior inspired by bees to identify shattered reef fragments, and collectively rebuild these complex coral structures by cementing them in place.
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September 12, 2012 – via Subsea Survey IRM
Autonomous underwater vehicles will take center stage in Galveston this November. TSC’s Subsea Survey conference covers Inspection, Repair and Maintenance (IRM). Vehicle manufacturers are all beginning to introduce IRM versions of their AUVs designed to perform tasks in deepwater subsea fields.
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August 31, 2012 – via Inside Defense
The water-borne IED threat is also catching the attention of the Navy, and the Expeditionary Warfare Division in particular.
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August 31, 2012 – via Inside Defense
The water-borne IED threat is also catching the attention of the Navy, and the Expeditionary Warfare Division in particular.
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August 30, 2012 – via The Philippine Star
The project generally aims to use the underwater robot to foresee incidence of fish kill and help fisherfolk in saving their harvest.
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August 28, 2012 – via BBC News
Underwater robots tasked with saving coral reefs are being developed at Heriot-Watt University in Scotland.
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August 22, 2012 – via Heriot-Watt University
Researchers at Heriot-Watt are developing a swarm of intelligent robots to help save coral reefs.
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August 18, 2012 – via redOrbit
Marine scientists in the US have deployed a surfing robot off the coast of San Francisco in order to help track tagged great white sharks in the Pacific Ocean, various media outlets reported Friday.
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August 7, 2012 – via AUVSI
The Ecuadorian Navy has been trying to develop its own autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) to combat piracy for the past two years.
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July 30, 2012 – via Petrobras
The basic system concept of an autonomous underwater riser inspector (AURI) uses the riser as a guide. Designed by EngeMOVI of Brazil, the AURI was the first robot in the world to independently inspect oil pipeline platforms.
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July 27, 2012 – via Office of Naval Research
Enable the Navy to develop an Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV)-based system capable of conducting the three phases of mine hunting operations – mine detection/classification, identification, and neutralization – in a single sortie, to potentially be incorporated as part of a future Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) MCM mission package.
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July 15, 2012 – via Yanko Designs
The drone is basically an oversized pool net with a sensor fitted machine. It nets drifting plastic trash in a very innovative way. Several drones scout the seas for waste and use a special sensor to keep away fish and other aquatic animals.
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July 6, 2012 – via Geometrics
Weston Solutions, The University of Delaware and Geometrics recently participated in a project to install and operate a magnetometer in a Teledyne Gavia AUV to locate underwater UXOs.
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May 3, 2012 – via Second Line of Defense
Or The Future of Maritime Robotics
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May 3, 2012 – via American Chemical Society
a group of scientists recently announced the results of their research into an oil droplet-gathering microsubmarines.
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April 24, 2012 – via Discovery News
The robot, a 10-inch-wide, six-foot-long cylinder called VALKYRIE, would melt the ice ahead of it and leave the power plant on the surface.
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April 19, 2012 – via Wired
Future extraterrestrial rovers may be powered remotely by high-energy laser beams shot through miles of thin fiber-optic cables. This new technology could allow robotic probes to penetrate thick layers of ice to explore Antarctic lakes or the subterranean oceans on icy moons like Europa or Enceladus, and even power a new kind of rocket into space.
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April 17, 2012 – via Military Times
It’s a shoe-box-sized robot that clings to a ship’s hull with magnets, a device initially built to scout out the underwater mines divers could place along a ship’s hull. But now, designers are looking for additional uses that may assist sailors in more mundane tasks, like spotting corrosion along the hull or motoring into hard-to-reach places like tanks and voids.
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March 26, 2012 – via Science
Researchers hoping to better understand fish distributions by recording the sounds they make have picked up something unusual: barely-audible, cricket-like noises they think could be nighttime fish farts.
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March 23, 2012 – via European Space Agency
The Savewater Project conducts a feasibility study for integrated Satellite – AUV (autonomous underwater vehicle) applications in the field of water management.
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March 16, 2012 – via DARPA STO
The unique physical attributes and emergent environmental trends in the Arctic offer opportunities to tailor new technology that otherwise limits traditional approaches.
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March 14, 2012 – via Popular Science
Can Brendan Foley and an army of shipwreck-seeking robots transform maritime archaeology?
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March 14, 2012 – via Rutgers University
The ability to monitor distribution and movement of mobile marine animals at the level of the individual is critical for understanding of population structure and habitat use.
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February 23, 2012 – via New Scientist
These comprise a shallow reef survey using a 360-degree camera on a motorised diver-pulling underwater “scooter”, a deep reef survey ploughing the depths between 30 and 100 metres using robotic submarines, and a megafauna survey studying the migratory behaviour of tiger sharks, green turtles and manta rays as seawater temperatures increase.
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February 17, 2012 – via Memorial University
Memorial researchers are working to develop new technologies that will allow autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) to be used for resource exploration in difficult areas.
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February 16, 2012 – via Hibbard Inshore
Hibbard Inshore, the Michigan based deep tunnel and underwater specialist is first to order the new Saab Seaeye Sabertooth hybrid long-range AUV/ROV.
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February 10, 2012 – via Sydney Morning Herald
To assist archaeologists excavating the ancient ruin, the team have used an autonomous underwater vehicle with stereo cameras, as well as a diver-pushed rig, to produce photo-realistic 3D recreations of the seafloor site.
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January 25, 2012 – via Princeton Security Technologies
Princeton Security Technologies Completes Radiation Sensor Testing on LDUUV With Boeing
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January 25, 2012 – via Nature
Armed with high-tech methods, researchers are scouring the Aegean Sea for the world’s oldest shipwrecks.
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January 5, 2012 – via UDaily
University scientists aiding fishermen in butterfish conundrum
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November 27, 2011 – via Santa Maria Times
The shark tracking project uses autonomous underwater vehicles, or AUVs, from Cal Poly to gather and send data to scientists
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November 9, 2011 – via OC Register
A retooled robot submarine that can map the depths for oil drilling, scan for radiation or even track whales and other sea life is being tested this week off Santa Catalina Island.
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November 7, 2011 – via MIT
“The next frontier is going to be intervention,” Chryssostomidis says. An AUV will examine, say, the footing of an oil platform or another piece of subsea equipment and then perform a task.
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November 7, 2011 – via Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS),College of William and Mary
The project, funded by a 1-year grant from the National Science Foundation, will allow the students to pilot unmanned robotic submarines in an attempt to monitor the conservation status of shipwrecked vessels scuttled by Lord Cornwallis during the Battle of Yorktown in 1781—the last major battle of the American Revolution.
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October 11, 2011 – via Fast Company
The Hull Bug, inspired by hermit crabs, will swim alongside warships and keep their hulls sparkling clean.
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October 8, 2011 – via Science Daily
Using an advanced stereo-mapping robot, developed by the Australian Centre of Field Robotics at Sydney University, the entire city was recorded to a resolution of a few centimetres. From tiny graves, to door steps, from the walls of huge buildings which line the ancient streets to the ancient artefacts that litter the seabed — every item was recorded in high resolution 3D creating a resource that can be analysed and studied by other archaeologists for years to come.
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August 31, 2011 – via New Times
The group’s vehicle was equipped with something called a stereo-hydrophone system that figures out which direction a tagged shark lies based on how it receives acoustic signals. Students developed an algorithm that lets the machine estimate where the shark is in real time.
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August 27, 2011 – via Rutgers
Hurricane Irene’s sweep of the mid-Atlantic coast could help scientists learn a lot about the complex interplay of atmospheric and ocean weather, and Rutgers University researchers are using robot submarines, beachfront radar stations and sensors in space to get at those secrets.
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August 17, 2011 – via Security Management
Insufficient attention has been paid to the potential for attacks by similar unmanned systems that could be built cheaply to easily penetrate port defenses.
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August 11, 2011 – via KSL
It’s part of an experiment aimed at getting toxic mercury out of the water.
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August 1, 2011 – via Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory
Carbon Explorer floats follow ocean currents, yo-yoing back and forth in the first kilometer below the surface of the sea, then resurfacing to report their data and receive new instructions via satellite. Since the early 2000s a dozen Carbon Explorers have produced detailed information on the carbon cycle in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Southern Ocean
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July 21, 2011 – via MIT
A spherical robot equipped with a camera may navigate underground pipes of a nuclear reactor by propelling itself with an internal network of valves and pumps.
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June 7, 2003 – via New York Times
Working with ASI Group, a tunnel-inspection company from St. Catharines, Ontario, the Woods Hole engineers devised a specialized device for the project and the means to get it down narrow shafts, one of which was 1,000 feet deep, and up again.
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