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A Robot Turtle to Inspect Shipwrecks

Featured image: Aquatic Turtle by Michael Miloserdoff SOURCE: publicdomainpictures.net

From Science Daily

Nov. 26, 2013 — The Robot Safari in London Science Museum will see the world premiere of the underwater robot U-CAT, a highly maneuverable robot turtle, designed to penetrate shipwrecks.

U-CAT’s locomotion principle is similar to sea turtles. Independently driven four flippers make the robot highly maneuverable; it can swim forward and backward, up and down and turn on spot in all directions. . . Read Complete Report

Inching SkySweeper robot provides cheap way to inspect powerlines (W/Video)

Featured Image: Skysweeper Robot.SOURCE: gizmag.com  accompanying article below.

From GizMag By  April 21, 2013

If you look up at a power line in a few years and see something skittering along the wires, it (hopefully) won’t be a mutant crab monster, but a powerline inspection robot costing less than US$1,000. A prototype of such a robot, called SkySweeper, was presented this month at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) Jacobs School of Engineering’s Research Expo. The robot was built with off-the-shelf electronics and plastic parts printed on an inexpensive 3D printer. . . . Read Complete Report

From youtube uploaded by JacobsSchoolNews on Apr 16, 2013

SkySweeper Robot Makes Inspecting Power Lines Simple and Inexpensive

2 American Doctors Inspect Presumed Alien Skeleton (Video Report)

Photo: Homo sapiens sapiens – Deliberate deformity of the skull, “peruvian deformity ” Proto-Nazca Culture (from 200 to 100 BC), Region of Nazca Peru. 7 January 2012. CREDIT: Didier Descouens SOURCE: Wikipedia This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. (Public Domain) 

 

from youtube

uploaded by Brien Foerster

Published on Nov 19, 2012