A sewer robot that monitors pipework and raises blockage alerts before flooding occurs is set for its first mission. Pipebot Patrol is a £1.8m project led by Northumbrian Water and funded by the ...

Photo taken on Nov 15 shows the sewer robot being deployed in Wuhan, capital of Hubei province. [Photo by Li Hui/chinadaily.com.cn] Wuhan, capital of Hubei province, has started to use robots to ...

Like bomb removal and space exploration, sewer reconnaissance is an excellent job for robots and a whole industry has grown up around their unique services. EnviroSight is one such company in the ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — An army of robots is being deployed underground in Kansas City. Its mission? To map the city’s entire sewer system. The robots can see what we can’t – cracks and ...

The robotic device will be tooling around in the city’s largest sewer pipes, collecting data that someday soon will help locate cracks and wear before they cause a major pipeline collapse.

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Pictured: Giant 330ft 'fatberg' that was so large it needed a remote-controlled robot to clear it from sewer. The 330-foot long block of fat was discovered in a sewer in Bedfordshire ...