Putting robotics to its best advantage is the tubeBot Pipe robot. This is the zero-energy solution for detecting leaks in the water supply pipes of the urban drinking water systems of the world. Billions of liters of water are wasted throughout the world due to faulty pipes and leaks in them. Monitoring the entire water supply lines of the city can be a cumbersome job, and is very inefficiently done. Ideally you need to shut off the supply when repairing the damaged pipe, or even dig up roads for that; but with the tubeBot you won't have to do any such thing. It is an autonomous maintenance robot for urban drinking water piping systems.

It's quick at detecting and can fix almost all kinds of leaks. The tubeBot works without an additional energy supply, this is because it incorporates intelligent functionality of using the existing pressure in the pipes to move. By employing this robot, urban drinking water agencies can expect to save and conserve this precious resource.

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