Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. has successfully verified the Close-range Subsea Pipeline Inspection by Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV)

Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. has been developing an AUV, SPICE (Subsea Precise Inspector with Close Eyes), equipped with a robot arm —the world’s first—based on a fusion of underwater vehicle technologies and industrial robot technologies and successfully completed verification tests for the close-range inspection process of a subsea of the coast of Awaji Island, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. The picture is actual scene of the sea trial.”

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