Skysweeper Robot in Action (IMAGE)

University of California - San Diego

Skysweeper Robot in Action

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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. It was designed by graduate student Nick Morozovsky in the Coordinated Robotics Lab led by mechanical and aerospace engineering professor Tom Bewley.

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Photo Credit: UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering.

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