{"id":154052,"date":"2022-12-31T16:25:47","date_gmt":"2022-12-31T22:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/ces-2023-engineers-create-a-snake-like-robot-that-can-move-inside-water-pipes"},"modified":"2022-12-31T16:25:47","modified_gmt":"2022-12-31T22:25:47","slug":"ces-2023-engineers-create-a-snake-like-robot-that-can-move-inside-water-pipes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/ces-2023-engineers-create-a-snake-like-robot-that-can-move-inside-water-pipes","title":{"rendered":"CES 2023: Engineers create a snake-like robot that can move inside water pipes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ces-2023-engineers-create-a-snake-like-robot-that-can-move-inside-water-pipes2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The intelligent robot \u2018evolves\u2019 inside the pipe, without stopping water distribution.<\/p>\n<p>At a time when a significant proportion of people face scarcity of drinking water, a staggering 32 billion m3 of clean water is lost a year due to faulty distribution networks around the world. This is where technologies like ACWA Robotics\u2019 Pathfinder autonomous robot become a much-relevant product for utilities. The system can navigate at the heart of the water supply network without disrupting water distribution to users to provide actionable data.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>ACWA<\/p>\n<p>According to a UN report, worldwide water demand is expected to exceed supply by 40 per cent by 2030, and waste of water in the supply chain is something that cities cannot afford anymore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The intelligent robot \u2018evolves\u2019 inside the pipe, without stopping water distribution. At a time when a significant proportion of people face scarcity of drinking water, a staggering 32 billion m3 of clean water is lost a year due to faulty distribution networks around the world. This is where technologies like ACWA Robotics\u2019 Pathfinder autonomous robot [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}