A robot that autonomously moves through the drinking water network to ascertain its condition and that knows exactly what to do in problematic situations — that's the prospect of the Autonomous Inspection Robot (AIR), which received the annual innovation award during the opening ceremony of Aquatech Amsterdam 2021.
A Dutch consortium of seven drinking water companies, KWR and Demcon Robotic Systems, took the initiative for this promising robot for effective and cost-saving...