Rolls-Royce Trent| General Civil Aerospace Production of turbojet engines 02:30 INSPECT robots A network of ‘periscopes’ permanently embedded within the engine, enabling it to inspect itself using the periscope cameras to spot and report any maintenance requirements. 03:16 FLARE – a pair of ‘snake’ FLARE – a pair of ‘snake’ robots which are flexible enough to travel through an engine, like an endoscope, before carrying out patch repairs to damaged thermal barrier coatings. 04:13 SWARM robots A set of collaborative, miniature robots, each around 10mm in diameter which would be deposited in the centre of an engine via a ‘snake’ robot and would then perform a visual inspection of hard to reach areas by crawling through the engine.
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