An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: The medal awarded on Friday lauded the “lifesaving bravery and devotion to duty” for work detecting land mines in Cambodia. Its recipient: a rat named Magawa.
Magawais the first rat to receive the award — a gold medal bestowed by the People’s Dispensary for Sick Animals, a British charity, that is…
Tag: Sewers
This robot can tell when sewers need repairing by scratching the walls
A four-legged robot that wades through water and climbs over obstacles can detect when the concrete in underground sewerage tunnels needs repair Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2244994-this-robot-can-tell-when-sewers-need-repairing-by-scratching-the-walls/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Mysterious Green Liquid Oozing Onto Highway Identified
An anonymous reader quotes the Detroit Free Press:
The mysterious, greenish-yellow liquid that ran onto a Michigan highway on Friday came from a closed electroplating business whose owner is serving a year in federal prison for operating an unlicensed hazardous waste storage facility… The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was called to investigate and determined the liquid likely was groundwater contaminated with hexavalent…
Swarms of golf ball-sized robots could detect leaks in the sewers
Swarms of robots could help map out underground networks and detect leaks as they float through pipes Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2224098-swarms-of-golf-ball-sized-robots-could-detect-leaks-in-the-sewers/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…