Robotic snakes for subsea inspection work

摘要

The norwegian university of Science and Technology (NTNU) and research company Sintef may have created the next big thing in subsea inspection, maintenance and repair-robot snakes. The two have spent the last decade conducting research on snake robotics that could potentially reduce the need for large and expensive vessels to perform inspection and light intervention work on the seabed. Kongsberg Maritime and Statoil have expressed interest in the robots and signed an agreement with an NTNU spin-off company, Eelume, to develop and produce the robotic snakes.