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Sounds like a YC startup idea to me. Small bots that carry waste through the dry sewers. I'm both joking (haha), and I'm not joking (maybe there are tech solut
by gfxgirl 6y ago
Sounds like a YC startup idea to me. Small bots that carry waste through the dry sewers.
I'm both joking (haha), and I'm not joking (maybe there are tech solutions)
- bobthepanda 6y agoI believe these days a lot of sewer monitoring is robotic, because it's cheaper than sending down humans, they fit in smaller pipes, and it's easier than digging up all the pipes to install cameras that would have to be resistant to sewer conditions. Or at least there seems to be a push for robotics in this general direction: https://phys.org/news/2018-11-robots-sewers-society-millions.html https://phys.org/news/2018-11-robots-sewers-society-millions... I don't know that the solution to the blockages themselves is going to be high-tech (other than attachments to said robots); the current solutions to clear blockages look more or less like poking the blockage with a stick (similar to using a cotton swab for earwax) or hosing it down.