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Field, industrial and inspection robots

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Clearpath Husky

The Clearpath Husky is a rugged four-wheel skid-steer unmanned ground vehicle made by Clearpath Robotics of Waterloo, Ontario, for outdoor robotics research, with the A200 and A300 models.

Clearpath Jackal

The Clearpath Jackal is a small, weatherproof, skid-steered unmanned ground vehicle built by Clearpath Robotics of Kitchener, Ontario, released in 2014 as an entry-level research platform for field robotics.

Cool Robot

The Cool Robot is a four-wheel-drive, solar-powered autonomous rover developed by Dartmouth College and CRREL for summertime science campaigns across the ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland.

Dragon Fire (robot)

Dragon Fire, or Dragon Firefighter, is a Japanese firefighting robot developed at Tohoku University from 2016, a water-filled hose that flies on its own jets' thrust.

Emesent Hovermap ST

Emesent Hovermap ST is a mobile LiDAR mapping payload by Australia's Emesent, launched in 2022, that maps GPS-denied environments like mines and tunnels using SLAM.

FarmBot

FarmBot is an open-source CNC gantry robot that seeds, waters, and weeds a raised garden bed under the control of a web application, conceived by Rory Aronson in 2011.

Inuktun Crawler

The Inuktun Crawler is a tethered, teleoperated tracked robot made by Inuktun Services Ltd. of Nanaimo, British Columbia, that inspects pipes, tanks, ship hulls, and other hazardous spaces.

LineScout

LineScout is a teleoperated inspection robot developed by Hydro-Québec's research institute in Quebec, introduced in 2006 to service live high-voltage transmission lines while they remain energized.

MEISTeR

MEISTeR, short for Maintenance Equipment Integrated System of Telecontrol Robot, is a two-armed remote robot by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries used for decontamination and sampling at Fukushima Daiichi after 2011.

SmartBall

SmartBall is a free-swimming pipeline inspection tool developed by Pure Technologies, now Xylem, that records acoustic data to detect leaks in pressurized water mains while they remain in service.