Ordinarily, when there's a leak in an underground natural gas pipeline, the affected section of pipe has to be excavated and replaced. Soon, however, a pipe-inspecting and -repairing modular robot may ...

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 ...

As part of the Innovation UK competition, a company called TWI has developed a robot that is able to crawl through nuclear pipes and repair them, ensuring that nothing dangerous leaks through them.

Pipebots are laden with sensors and designed to be small enough to patrol water pipes without blocking them Around three billion litres of water are lost through leaks across hundreds of thousands of ...

Damaged food pipe of a young patient was successfully treated by robotic surgery at AIIMS Jodhpur. Patient had accidentally consumed acid and had his food pipe damaged badly. He started being given ...

An MIT research team called PipeGuard has developed a robot capable of finding the smallest leaks in pipes regardless of what they are made of. It can be inserted into the water supply through any ...

Alligators that live in the sewers of New York City may just be a myth, but now there’s a new critter to think about scurrying through the pipes. A Japanese company designed robotic spiders to scuttle ...

As a person who despises the cold, there is nothing worse than being home on a frigid winter night and having your utility company turn off the gas for repairs. Thankfully, robots are here to save us ...

A repair robot that takes inspiration from the bendiness and sensing ability of snakes to access hard-to-reach places in harsh, industrial environments is now being exploited for use in human surgery.