Robot Dogs to sniff out faults at Interconnector sites

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Robot Dogs to sniff out faults at Interconnector sites

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Boston Dynamics and their rather scary looking AI-driven robot dogs are being trialled as maintenance sniffer dogs. Woof.

https://www.smart-energy.com/industry-s ... onnectors/
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Re: Robot Dogs to sniff out faults at Interconnector sites

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Relevant Tom Scott video

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Wow thanks for sharing - that video is fantastic!

20 hydro power plants all unmanned and controlled in a central plant - incredible
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dan_b wrote: ↑Sat Mar 04, 2023 1:15 pm Wow thanks for sharing - that video is fantastic!

20 hydro power plants all unmanned and controlled in a central plant - incredible
Quite a number of the hydro plants in Scotland are unmanned and remotely operated.
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