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Robots to Crawl Under the City
Johan Louwers writes "Robots will crawl tubes in a short while to investigate power cables running in the tubes to make sure they are still undamaged or in need for a repair. The Robotic Cable Inspection System is developed by Alexander Mamishev, an assistant professor of electrical engineering at the University of Washington.
Making use of infrared thermal analysis and acoustic partial discharge analysis, the robot will be checking mile after mile of cable while crawling his way in the tubes."
How the Sentinels got their start.
snarkth
I, for one, welcome our new robotic underlords.
Now where are we humans going to hide when Skynet becomes active?
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
I would hope they would make them easy to identify and track, Imagine stumbling upon some weird robotic beasty that washed out of a storm drain and thinking it's the beginning of the robot revolution or something, Maybe they could just write "NOT EVIL" in magic marker or something, that would make ME feel better.
The final scene involves a huge explosion or EMP burst that destroys all the robots but also leaves everyone in the sewer in complete darkness. Cut, print, that's a wrap. Where's my money?
We desperately NEED something to keep the tubes clear. Sometimes it takes a whole WEEK for an Internet to get to me!
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"Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next.
If these robots can go into tubes, maybe when the internets are clogged they can help us out?
Great, how long before they start using similar robots to check your prostate?
(Ha! You thought this was going to be another reference to The Matrix/Terminator, didn't you?)
Yeah, but can it fly?
... and then they built the supercollider.
For a moment there I thought we were talking the start of the matrix :P
Shadus