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