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Re: Pipe Inspection Robot [video]

#11

Its definitely neat, but not sure how practical it is against traditional pressure/vacuum? The Oil Industry has a big lead in this tech, but maybe this would be useful in domestic applications like drainage?

I did find it strange that in most of the footage the pipes seemed to be tightly sealed with screws, adhesive, and in some cases what looked to be foam. It makes me wonder if there was some sort of vacuum required for this demo.

Re: Pipe Inspection Robot [video]

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What's with this kind of "Technical Innovation" video? Synthesized voiceover, royalty-free upbeat stock music background, myriad of grammatical and factual errors, over-hypes a fairly simple device, clearly developed/produced outside of the U.S. but is targeting an English-speaking audience. I understand the "looking for funding" aspect of this, but if you can't get simple grammatical errors fixed, or honestly, if yo…

content producer is probably not native speaker of the language? also, isn't this a trendy thing to do on TikTok?

...Where low effort content reigns supreme I guess.

Re: Pipe Inspection Robot [video]

#13

Its definitely neat, but not sure how practical it is against traditional pressure/vacuum? The Oil Industry has a big lead in this tech, but maybe this would be useful in domestic applications like drainage?

Oil and gas use pipe "pigs" which date back to pulling a bale of hay tied to a wire through the pipe to clean things out. Apparently they made a squeeling sound and the name Pipe Pig stuck. More details on modern pigging: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigging

Re: Pipe Inspection Robot [video]

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post #13

Its definitely neat, but not sure how practical it is against traditional pressure/vacuum? The Oil Industry has a big lead in this tech, but maybe this would be useful in domestic applications like drainage?

Oil and gas use pipe "pigs" which date back to pulling a bale of hay tied to a wire through the pipe to clean things out. Apparently they made a squeeling sound and the name Pipe Pig stuck. More details on modern pigging: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigging

They use smart pigs to inspect pipelines too. They are awesome looking machines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmJ083afaYY

Re: Pipe Inspection Robot [video]

#15
Now that I've actually clicked it, I really want to know why this is in the top of HN. Like others have said, this is a generic, synthesized-voice video produced about something simple and not very innovative that looks like a dog toy that has been battered over years by a playful dog. Why is this on the front page?

Re: Pipe Inspection Robot [video]

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What's with this kind of "Technical Innovation" video? Synthesized voiceover, royalty-free upbeat stock music background, myriad of grammatical and factual errors, over-hypes a fairly simple device, clearly developed/produced outside of the U.S. but is targeting an English-speaking audience. I understand the "looking for funding" aspect of this, but if you can't get simple grammatical errors fixed, or honestly, if yo…

These are made by bots or low paid foreign labor (and probably soon AI if not already) and spammed at places like Reddit/HN for a) karma farming to make accounts look "legit" for advertising use b) ad view revenue. It's basically the same business model as SEO-ified blogspam.

Re: Pipe Inspection Robot [video]

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

content producer is probably not native speaker of the language? also, isn't this a trendy thing to do on TikTok?

...Where low effort content reigns supreme I guess.

I mean, they just gave you a demo on a robot that wiggles around inside of a pipe with all sorts of 3D generated content. if that's low effort content in your book...

Re: Pipe Inspection Robot [video]

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What's with this kind of "Technical Innovation" video? Synthesized voiceover, royalty-free upbeat stock music background, myriad of grammatical and factual errors, over-hypes a fairly simple device, clearly developed/produced outside of the U.S. but is targeting an English-speaking audience. I understand the "looking for funding" aspect of this, but if you can't get simple grammatical errors fixed, or honestly, if yo…

I think this is what you get when material scientists have just a few hours to produce a video, and have no knowledge of video editing software.
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