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Articulated wheeled in-pipe inspection robots for complex pipeline navigation
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Add a deployment →Ritsumeikan University's robotics laboratory develops the AIRo series of articulated wheeled pipeline inspection robots designed to navigate bent pipes, T-branches, and vertical sections. The robots use passive and active compliant joints with omni-wheels and spherical wheels for orientation control in confined pipe environments.
Active products
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Company facts
- HQ
- Kusatsu, Japan
Active robots by Ritsumeikan University
3 shown- 1
- 2
- 3
Safety reports
Japanese workplace accidents reach the labour ministry and product incidents reach NITE. We read both, and they are small files.
Milestones
- 2026launch
Launched AIRo-5.1
Shadow-based operation assistant system for pipeline inspection published in Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics
Published design of multilink-articulated wheeled pipeline inspection robot using passive elastic joints in Advanced Robotics journal
AIRo-II presented at IROS 2016 with capability to pass through bent, branch, and vertical pipes
- 2015launch
Launched AIRo-2
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