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Bristled robot can venture deeper into drainpipes
Aug 5 2008, Jaiyant Cavale

Usually, to inspect drainpipes robots are used these days. Robots are especially required to inspect drainpipes with hazardous materials and the robots, also called ‘pigs’ are driven inside using gas pressure or by some other liquid and the robots...

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