Want to crawl inside a nuke plant swinging a hammer? No? Toshiba's inspection bots will do it instead
The thin machines rely on magnetic attraction to the surface of the stator core – part of a turbine's innards – and are already in use in some plants. The machines can use their cameras to inspect surfaces, or unfurl a hammer and microphone – the former hits the turbine, the latter listens to gather info about the state of the generation equipment.The multi-functional robot also includes a probe that uses ultrasound to inspect internal defects on a turbine rotor's wedge and teeth.
The Tokyo-based company is by its own admission not the first to utilize robots to look for potentially dangerous flaws in generators. General Electric has its
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