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Poop Drones Are Keeping Sewers Running So Humans Don't Have to (www.wired.com)
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[–] Texas_Hangover@sh.itjust.works 6 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Or you could read the article. Wheels ain't gonna work down there bro.

[–] Saleh@feddit.org 1 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

There is no mention why wheels wouldnt work.

They only mention that flying is difficult because of confined space and changing airflows.

[–] Blemgo@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

My guess is that the wires/tracks could get stuck in sewage, and it might make it harder to examine the floor better due to how small the drone might be.

I had the idea of a monorail system, but I guess it would have a similar issue in case the surface the rail was attached to got faulty. Might've been cool looking though.

[–] Saleh@feddit.org 3 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

I am asking because i know crawler robots exist and are in use since at least a few yearse. The more interesting aspect imo. is the automated image recognition which made huge improvements over the past years. For that it makes sense to have the analysis centralized within reason. E.g. pattern recognition against a larger database. There is local factors too though as materials, construction forms and so on often have historic local differences.

I fail to see, why the wheel needed to be reinvented into flying here.

Some examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEMC_3ilpHw https://redzone.com/our-technology/solo/
https://www.theengineer.co.uk/content/in-depth/crawler-robots-helping-to-prevent-flooding-and-pollution

[–] Sagan_Wept@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 15 hours ago

5th paragraph