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Boston Dynamics
Boston Dynamics is a world leader in mobile robots, tackling some of the toughest robotics challenges. We combine the principles of dynamic control and balance with sophisticated mechanical designs, cuttingedge electronics, and next-generation software for high-performance robots equipped with perception, navigation, and intelligence. Boston Dynamics has an extraordinary and fast-growing technical team of engineers and scientists who seamlessly combine advanced analytical thinking with bold engineering and boots-in-the-mud practicality.
Technology
Development stage: Commercial Launch date: 2019
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Automate sensing & inspection, capture limitless data and explore without boundaries
TRANSFORMATIVE MOBILITY
Spot is an agile mobile robot that navigates terrain with unprecedented mobility, allowing you to automate routine inspection tasks and data capture safely, accurately, and frequently.
The results? Safer, more efficient and more predictable operations.
SITE DOCUMENTATION
Integrate Spot with a 360° camera and site documentation software to reduce time required to capture data and enhance employee productivity in documenting and managing site progress.
Learn how Pomerleau uses HoloBuilder’s Spot integration to save 20 hours of employee time per week documenting a 500,000 sqft. project.
DIGITAL TWIN CREATION
Equip Spot with a laser scanner and program routine scanning routes to create digital twins of worksites and identify rework sooner.
GAUGE READING
Attach a Spot CAM to the base platform to collect color visuals and read analog gauges measuring pressure, flow, temperature, and more. Attach a PTZ to the Spot CAM to get 30x optical zoom and inspect gauges from afar.
LEAK DETECTION
Add processing to visuals collected by the Spot CAM payload to detect water and steam leaks around plants and note equipment with degraded performance.
NOISE ANOMALY DETECTION
Equip Spot with a microphone or utilise the one on the Spot CAM to detect abnormal operating noises like ticking, grinding, or whirring.
THERMAL INSPECTION
Equip Spot with a thermal camera to detect issue-indicating hot spots on machines or electrical conductors.
TUNNEL INSPECTION
Drive Spot underground remotely post-blast to look for cracks and instabilities and ensure safe conditions for workers.
WHY DOES BOSTON DYNAMICS MAKE LEGGED ROBOTS?
Boston Dynamics focuses on creating robots with advanced mobility, dexterity and intelligence. We have long held that mobility sufficient to access both the natural and the built world required legs. We began the pursuit of this dream over 30 years ago, first in academia and then as part of Boston Dynamics because it was an exciting technical challenge and because to build a highly mobile robot required it. We wanted to build a robot that could go where people go. The commonly referred to “dull, dirty and dangerous” tasks don’t occur solely on a neatly organised factory floor, they pop up in the natural world and in existing infrastructure. These are places where being effective requires deftly maneuvering through rocky trails, staircases, catwalks, doors or narrow cluttered passages. The environment can’t be conformed to the machine, and therefore the machine must be capable in the environment as it comes.
While we take the natural world as inspiration for our robots, the design is ultimately motivated by functionality. Our robots end up moving like humans and animals not because we designed them to look like humans and animals but because we made them balance. Balance and dynamic motion are characteristics we have previously only seen in animals. It is this organic quality of dynamically stable motion that people tend to associate with lifelike movement. Partly because of the benefits of dynamic motion, our robots can navigate tough unstructured, unknown or antagonistic terrain with ease. Wheeled and tracked robots are limited by stairs, gaps, ground-level obstructions such as cabling and staged materials and minor height differences in flooring. These environments don’t present the same challenges for legged robots.
WHAT MAKES BOSTON DYNAMICS UNIQUE?
One of the things that makes Boston Dynamics unique is the ambition to build dynamically stable, legged machines. Marc Raibert began tackling this problem before anyone else in the world. And we’ve been at it since, almost 35 years. We’ve been inspired by and worked towards this goal for so long that we have invented techniques to make robots work that you can’t find in any textbook or technical article. The result is that we now know how to build walking machines of any size, shape, actuator style or powerplant. These unique designs enable our robots to conquer terrains inaccessible to others, and perform automated tasks in unstructured environments.
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Innovair
Specialist survey & inspection solutions provider serving the Energy, Infrastructure & Construction sectors. Founded by a team with over 40 years’ experience in Surveying, Inspection & Robotics, Innovair leverage this knowhow to help customers understand their environments, maintain asset integrity, reduce risk, and improve productivity. Using the latest survey & inspection technology, including our pioneering Autonomous Robotics Solutions, Laser Scanners, Drones, Remote Visual Inspection & Advanced NDT equipment, we collect accurate & repeatable data from precisely where you need it. A team of problem-solvers, driven by innovation, we work with our clients to fully understand their challenges, selecting the right tool(s) to complete each project safely, efficiently and to the highest standards.
Company Details
Website: www.innovair.co.uk Email: info@innovair.co.uk Tel: 01224 434 806
Address:
Unit 3 – Energy Development Centre, Claymore Drive, Aberdeen, AB23 8GD, UK
Technology
Development stage: Various, with our initial autonomous robotics offering being at prototype
Launch date: Initial autonomous robotics offering targeting Q3 2021
Functions and Benefits
• Capture accurate & repeatable survey & inspection data from precisely where you need it.
• Remove the need to put personnel at risk.
• Access dangerous environments more effectively.
• Achieve cost reduction through data & technology.
REDUCE UNCERTAINTY & MINIMISE THE RISK OF REWORK OR DELAYS
Our integrated service offering includes:
• Drone Survey & Inspection • Remote Visual Inspection • Laser Scanning • Advanced NDT • Autonomous Robotics Solutions
We continue to enhance these capabilities, with our in-house R&D team focussed on developing intelligent robots which can navigate, position, and deliver complex projects in unstructured & dynamic environments.
Work remains to be done before the value of robots is fully realised by the Energy sectors, at Innovair our solution(s) aim at progressing the wider adoption of in-service robotics in industrial environments, including offshore oil & gas platforms and renewable assets.
Remote sensing technology has advanced considerably over the past decade and when integrated with robotic technology the applications and use cases will continue to expand over the coming years.
Innovair believes that robotics will play a significant part in supporting asset operators to overcome the current and future challenges. As a business our objectives are clear: • Capture the most accurate and repeatable survey & inspection data; • Promote the use of robotics; to complete projects safely in the most complex, dangerous & difficult to access environments.
Want to find out more about the solutions we currently offer, take a look at the summaries below.
Drone Survey & Inspection
Using our fleet of fixed wing, multi-rotor, and confined space drones, we deliver survey & inspection services across various assets & sites. Our team of experienced engineers use drones to collect and deliver data with the highest level of accuracy and repeatability. Our stringent procedures ensure our operations are completed safely and we deliver the correct, actionable information to our clients so they can make data driven decisions and examine their assets. We can also provide alternative payload solutions including LiDAR, Thermal cameras and contact NDT.
Our engineers can provide results in a variety of formats, supporting you to make best use of the data. Data can be presented in PDF reports, edited video & photographs, or visualised through point clouds and highly accurate 3D models.
Remote Visual Inspection (RVI)
Innovair believes that robotics will play a significant part in supporting asset operators to overcome the current and future challenges. capture actionable point cloud data. Our team of Chartered Surveyors & Site Our RVI solutions enable the Engineers deliver highly accurate safe and effective collection of visual measured surveys to enhance decisioninspection data. Drawing on a wealth making, reduce costs, save time, and of industry expertise, our experienced & improve safety. competent inspection team are poised to meet your challenges. Our range Advanced NDT of state-of-the-art remotely deployed inspection systems are used for a variety Using a tethered drone fitted with a of applications. Working with our clients, modular robotic arm, Innovair can collect we collect the required data from the most ultrasonic thickness (UT) measurements difficult to access areas on their assets. across a range of structures, at various angles. The highly accurate, real-time and Using systems including push rod/drop web accessible data makes the decisioncameras, crawler vehicles and bespoke making process faster and more efficient. robotics, fitted with LED lighting, 360° pan & tilt camera functionality and the appropriate Innovair are also preparing to launch centralisation or adhesion solution for a series of automated NDT scanning the task at hand, be that internal pipe systems from late 2021. Designed work, tanks, vessels, towers, exhausts, for a range of in-service inspection wind turbine monopiles, blade internals or requirements, our solutions will draw on otherwise. the experience of our team and support our Energy clients to capture highly
Laser Scanning accurate and repeatable inspection data from across their assets. Deploying Using the latest laser scanning technology, quantitative inspection techniques, via our teams capture accurate as-built intelligent robotics, for challenging areas information quickly, delivering holistic data such as underdeck, splash zone, internal sets to an internal accuracy of +/- 5mm. structures, pipework and confined spaces, Combined with HDR panoramic images, the will allow us to collect rich “as-found” colourised point cloud data outputs provide data and give our clients a thorough a digital visualisation of your environment, understanding on current condition. with the ability to extract measurements. Highly accurate data sets are produced Autonomous efficiently providing our clients with the Robotics Solutions data they need, when they need it.
Working across multiple sectors, our data collection techniques are extremely transferable. Whether your asset is below or above ground, a confined space or at height, we will provide a solution to We envisage a world where robots are used to complete the most dangerous of tasks, in the harshest of environments, in order to keep our people safe and to enable sustained production in a changing economic climate. Our R&D team are developing a fleet of intelligent service robots which can navigate, position, and deliver complex services in dynamic & unstructured environments. With these pioneering solutions offering a modular and flexible approach, the systems will adapt to different types of structures and surfaces, selecting the correct approach for each task, integrating with tethers, tooling, light and heavy lift platforms as required. Advanced control solutions & continuous monitoring will enable SIMOPS and safe integration with human teams around them.
At Innovair, we have an ambitious team working towards common goals. We look forward to continued engagement with our clients’ and wider industry as we expand our business through 2021 and beyond. INNOVATION ZONE SPONSORED BY We aim to provide autonomy, safety and cost efficiency to our clients, whilst focussing on innovation, advancing technology and continuously developing the competency of our experienced www.leyton.compersonnel.
