Luigi Robot Takes Sewer Samples, Tracks Diseases
Sep-04-16
The Luigi robot from the team MIT will help track the health of cities by traveling the sewers and sampling the waste.Part of the Underworld Project, the Luigi robot is designed to one day replace the conventional sampling pole, which requires a human to dip a pole into a manhole—a task that is unsafe, unsanitary, and unsavory. Instead, the remote-controlled bot can be lowered into the sewer and then begin the filtration process on the spot, eliminating the need to take large amounts of raw sewage to the lab.
In time, the team envisions teams of the Luigi robots with onboard diagnostics travelling the sewer network, gathering samples and testing them with in real time, and then sending the results to the cloud.
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I've been working underground in sanitary tunnels, there's no way to predict the forever changing environment.
If the robot runs the test in the same spot two different days, may have very different results
Posted by Jacob Jutson on September 7, 2016
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I've been working underground in sanitary tunnels, there's no way to predict the forever changing environment.
If the robot runs the test in the same spot two different days, may have very different results
Posted by Jacob Jutson on September 7, 2016
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