Robot snakes to reach impossible places w/Andrew Graham

Andrew Graham is Senior Technical Leader at OC Robotics, the world’s leading designer and manufacturer of commercial snake-arm robots and software for confined and hazardous environments Andrew talks about snake arm robots that can get into impossible locations and do things no other system can. Andrew tells the story about starting OC Robotics as a way to ground his robotics development efforts in a customer need. He felt that making something useful gave a great direction to his projects. We also hear about some of the unique properties of snake arm robots: – They can fit in any space that the tip of the robot can get through – They can operate in very tight locations as they are flexible all along and therefore do not sweep large areas to move – They are easy to seal up so that they don’t interact with the environment they operate in – They are set up in two parts where the part exposed to the environment and to risk is the cheaper part Andrew then shares some interesting insights from the many projects he has worked on, from fish processing and suit making to bomb disposal and servicing of nuclear power plants. This podcast is part of the Wevolver network. Wevolver is a platform & community providing engineers informative content to help them innovate. Learn more at Wevolver.com Promote your company in our podcast? If you are interested in sponsoring the podcast, you can contact us at richard@wevolver.com This interview was recorded in 2015.

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Robot snakes to reach impossible places w/Andrew Graham is an episode from Wevolver Robots in Depth by Richard Hulskes.

This episode is 00:37:04 long.

This episode was published on Dec 27, 2019.

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