EMBRACING CHANGE THROUGH INNOVATION: THE PIPE-I ROBOT

Marcus Hall (Beca Ltd)

ABSTRACT

In an era where climate change coupled with aging assets pose significant challenges to infrastructure resilience and management, the need for innovative solutions is paramount. To embrace change it is necessary innovate and one aspect of this is adopting new data acquisition technologies. Doing so can open new insights into the previously obscure and inaccessible. An example of this is the new Pipe-i robotic scanner: a custom-made vehicle born from the need to safely enter hazardous culverts (see Figure 1 below).

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