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1691                         <span class="by"><span class="byby">by </span><a href="//slashdot.org/~Alain+Williams">Alain Williams</a>  <span class="uid"><a href="//slashdot.org/~Alain+Williams">( 2972 )</a></span></a></span><span class="writes" style="display:none"> writes:</span>
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1696                 <div id="comment_body_57266608"><p>is he still with his partner who's dress he trod on ?</p></div>
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1754                         <span class="by"><span class="byby">by </span>Anonymous Coward</span><span class="writes" style="display:none"> writes:</span>
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1759                 <div id="comment_body_57266678"><p>Congratulations, you reinvented the pig.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigging" title="wikipedia.org" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...</a> [wikipedia.org]</p></div>
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1850                         <span class="by"><span class="byby">by </span><a href="//slashdot.org/~An+Ominous+Coward">An Ominous Coward</a>  <span class="uid"><a href="//slashdot.org/~An+Ominous+Coward">( 13324 )</a></span></a></span><span class="writes" style="display:none"> writes:</span>
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1855                 <div id="comment_body_57266994"><p>Ridiculous, how dare you plebeians libel our foremost technology elite. It's MIT, of course what they're doing is utterly novel and deserving of fawning media coverage.</p><p>(<a href="https://puretechltd.com/technology/purerobotics-pipeline-inspection-system/" title="puretechltd.com">https://puretechltd.com/technology/purerobotics-pipeline-inspection-system/</a> [puretechltd.com])</p></div>
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1891                         <span class="by"><span class="byby">by </span><a href="//slashdot.org/~ls671">ls671</a>  <span class="uid"><a href="//slashdot.org/~ls671">( 1122017 )</a></span></a></span><span class="writes" style="display:none"> writes:</span>
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1896                 <div id="comment_body_57266724"><p>I hear they tried that robot in Montreal and it crashed due to memory exhaustion.</p><p>Montreal is one of the oldest city in North America and there are so many leaks in its water system that it loses 30% of its fresh water supply.</p><p>Makes you wonder what is the average water loss in other systems.</p><p><span class="substr"> </span> <a href="https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/by-the-numbers-30-percent-of-montreals-water-is-lost-due-to-leaky-city-pipes" title="montrealgazette.com">https://montrealgazette.com/ne...</a> [montrealgazette.com] </p><p> <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/city-water-leaks-wasting-millions-of-tax-dollars-1.1048035" title="www.cbc.ca">https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada...</a> [www.cbc.ca]</p></div>
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1932                         <span class="by"><span class="byby">by </span><a href="//slashdot.org/~TechyImmigrant">TechyImmigrant</a>  <span class="uid"><a href="//slashdot.org/~TechyImmigrant">( 175943 )</a></span></a></span><span class="writes" style="display:none"> writes:</span>
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1937                 <div id="comment_body_57267656"><p>It's called a shuttlecock you blithering idiot.</p></div>
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