Researchers at the University of Sheffield in the U.K. developed small robots called "Pipebots" that can travel inside water ...

Robot That Climbs In The Pipe Date: June 27, 2008 Source: SINTEF Summary: Industrial pipe systems are inaccessible and narrow. The pipes can be vertical and have junctions.

Researchers say that these robots could pave the way for “self-repairing The University of Leeds will spearhead the development of small robots that could fix lamps and potholes all over the city.

Modular pipe robot. June 30, 2008 Scientists at Scandinavian independent research organizationSINTEF have a new robot in the pipeline. That’s the aim, anyway.

Robots are great for going where humans can't, and the cramped confines of municipal water pipes are the perfect example. A new initiative is working on building robots that can access and repair ...

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

Chinese scientists have developed a tiny wormlike robot that can wiggle into tiny pipes to inspect them with an endoscopic camera. The Tsinghua University team said the small robot could navigate ...

A small pipe-crawling robot named RadPiper will be unleashed in 15 of the 75 miles of pipes that were once used to make enriched uranium through a gaseous diffusion process.