Sanyo’s Inspection Robot Checks Structural Integrity
Writing by Conner Flynn on Wednesday, 14 of November , 2007 at 12:48 am
It looks like a stealth tank with a digital camera attached, so you might be thinking warfare/spying as soon as you see this jet-black bot. The truth is, Sanyo has a much more mundane job for this crawling cam. It won’t be seeing any military action, but it will be spending some time in the “urban trenches”; think crawlspaces under apartments, office buildings and homes for example. Its job is to check for structural damage. It will crawl around beneath any given building, while being very adept at avoiding any obstacles in its path. A full charge will give it about 2 hours of life while it beams back live video of what it encounters.
The operator can zoom in on any areas of interest and hopefully find any potential problems that need to be fixed. You’ll have to wait until next year to get one. By then, you’ll hopefully have the $8,736 saved up and ready to spend. It’s pricey, but it does beat running into the odd snake or rat beneath your dwelling.
…Or you could mount a cam on a toy tank for a lot less.
[AkihabaraNews] VIA [EnGadget]
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