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Shmeepsheep t1_j2j9n9n wrote

Reply to comment by DHFranklin in Water pipe robots could stop billions of litres leaking by Sariel007

I do love stupid articles like this. They make it seem like it's something innovative yet it's been around for a long time already. And I especially agree with it needing to be tethered to get pulled. The wifi one get stuck in a pipe, you just leaving your $25000 camera down there? No, now you need to send people in just to recover it before it causes a back up

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Mricypaw1 t1_j2kh2q5 wrote

> They make it seem like it's something innovative yet it's been around for a long time already

I mean not really. They explicitly mention in the article (and include a photo) of the traditional tethered robots that already exist, and then explain the advantages of this new approach.

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