SkySweeper (IMAGE)

University of California - San Diego

SkySweeper

Caption

SkySweeper is V-shaped with a motor-driven "elbow" and its ends are equipped with clamps that open and close as necessary to move it down utility lines, searching for damage, inch by inch.

Credit

Jacobs School of Engineering/UC San Diego

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