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1 MIT GRADUATE CREATES ROBOT THAT SWIMS THROUGH PIPES TO FIND OUT
2 IF THEY'RE LEAKING (FASTCOMPANY.COM)
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4 Thursday September 06, 2018 @11:30PM (BeauHD)
5 from the leak-detecting dept.
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7 o Reference: 0102640424
8 o News link: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/18/09/06/2058201/mit-graduate-creates-robot-that-swims-through-pipes-to-find-out-if-theyre-leaking
9 o Source link: https://www.fastcompany.com/90232363/this-leak-seeking-robot-just-won-the-u-s-james-dyson-award
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12 A 28-year-old MIT graduate named You Wu spent six years
13 [1]developing a low-cost robot designed to find leaks in pipes
14 early , both to save water and to avoid bigger damage later
15 from bursting water mains. "Called Lighthouse, the robot looks
16 like a badminton birdie," reports Fast Company. "A soft
17 'skirt' on the device is covered with sensors. As it travels
18 through pipes, propelled by the flowing water, suction tugs at
19 the device when there's a leak, and it records the location,
20 making a map of critical leaks to fix." From the report:
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22 > MIT doctoral student You Wu spent six years developing the
23 design, building on research that earlier students began under
24 a project sponsored by a university in Saudi Arabia, where
25 most drinking water comes from expensive desalination plants
26 and around a third of it is lost to leaks. It took three years
27 before he had a working prototype. Then Wu got inspiration
28 from an unexpected source: At a party with his partner, he
29 accidentally stepped on her dress. She noticed immediately,
30 unsurprisingly, and Wu realized that he could use a similar
31 skirt-like design on a robot so that the robot could detect
32 subtle tugs from the suction at each leak. Wu graduated from
33 MIT in June, and is now launching the technology through a
34 startup called [2]WatchTower Robotics . The company will soon
35 begin pilots in Australia and in Cambridge, Massachusetts. One
36 challenge now, he says, is creating a guide so water companies
37 can use the device on their own.
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41 [1] https://www.fastcompany.com/90232363/this-leak-seeking-rob-
42 ot-just-won-the-u-s-james-dyson-award
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44 [2] http://watchtowerrobotics.com/
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47 ** What we are not told ... (Score:1)
48 (by Alain Williams ( 2972 ))
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51 is he still with his partner who's dress he trod on ?
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53 ** pig (Score:1, Informative)
54 (by Anonymous Coward)
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57 Congratulations, you reinvented the pig.
58 [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
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63 [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigging
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67 ** Re: (Score:2)
68 (by An Ominous Coward ( 13324 ))
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71 Ridiculous, how dare you plebeians libel our foremost
72 technology elite. It's MIT, of course what they're doing is
73 utterly novel and deserving of fawning media coverage.
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75 [1]https://puretechltd.com/technology/purerobotics-pipeline-i-
76 nspection-system/ [puretechltd.com])
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82 https://puretechltd.com/technology/purerobotics-pipeline-insp-
83 ection-system/
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86 ** They tried that robot in Montreal... (Score:2)
87 (by ls671 ( 1122017 ))
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90 I hear they tried that robot in Montreal and it crashed due to
91 memory exhaustion.
92 Montreal is one of the oldest city in North America and there
93 are so many leaks in its water system that it loses 30% of its
94 fresh water supply.
95 Makes you wonder what is the average water loss in other systems.
96 [1]https://montrealgazette.com/ne... [montrealgazette.com]
97 [2]https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada... [www.cbc.ca]
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103 https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/by-the-numbers-30-pe-
104 rcent-of-montreals-water-is-lost-due-to-leaky-city-pipes
105 [2]
106 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/city-water-leaks-wasting-millions-
107 of-tax-dollars-1.1048035
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109 ** Badminton Birdie? (Score:2)
110 (by TechyImmigrant ( 175943 ))
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113 It's called a shuttlecock you blithering idiot.
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