The "To Bravely Go Where No Man …" Robot
While the US excels at robots to explore the outer reaches of space, the Anie development team here has a closer goal in mind - exploring the dark, forbidding spaces under the floor of your house. Anie is designed “to bravely go where no man in his right mind wants to go.”
The Anie robot, and it’s close robotic cousins also designed by the team at Topy, explores building crawl spaces, cavities, and even narrow pipes and ducting so that you don’t have to.
The robots onboard camera system beams back video and still images making it easy to compile detailed inspection reports.
Anie is intended for the relatively benign environment encountered under most structures, though TOPY also makes ‘rescue robots’ used for natural, and man made, disaster recovery.
Another one of TOPY’s robot designs that can actually climb staircases.
The smallest version can fit inside pipes and ducts for inspection purposes.
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