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With an ever—growing demand for renewable and sustainable energy sources, the infrastructure that provides that energy is becoming increasingly critical. now, at present, those facilities are often maintained by human divers, working in challenging and hazardous conditions. but here at heriot—watt university, theyre developing underwater robotic solutions to help take the strain. and theyve come up with this — the orca autonomous drone. weve got our scanning sonar, our mechanical scanning ...

On either side? yes, theres eight thrusters that are used, and it can move it in all six directions. youve got forward, backwards, left, right, up, down, and then youve got roll, pitch and turn. oh, wow. so, its pretty manoeuvrable, then? yes. all of this technology allows the device to work autonomously, planning its own route to fully scan a structure with little human intervention. so, the system that we have will continuously explore the unknown areas and see what comes next on the structure...

Working in challenging and hazardous conditions. but here at heriot—watt university, theyre developing underwater robotic solutions to help take the strain. and theyve come up with this — the orca autonomous drone. weve got our scanning sonar, a mechanical scanning sonar. that can see all of these structures and items around the vehicle at quite a long distance. weve got an acoustic modem. this means that when we dont use the tether, we can communicate with the robot using sounds underwater....

I can see here on either side? there are eight thrusters that are used and it can move it in all six directions. youve got forward, backwards, left, right, up, down, then youve got roll, pitch, and turn. oh, wow, so its pretty manoeuvrable then? yes. all this technology allows the device to work autonomously, planning its own route to fully scan a structure with little human intervention. so, the system that we have will continuously explore the unknown areas to see what what comes next on the s...

Help take the strain. and theyve come up with this — the orca autonomous drone. weve got our scanning sonar, a mechanical scanning sonar, that can see all of these structures and items around the vehicle at quite a long distance. weve got an acoustic modem. this means that when we dont use the tether, we can communicate with the robot using sounds underwater. and how does it move around in the water, is it with these propellers that i can see here on either side? there are eight thrusters that...

Communicate with the robot using sounds underwater. how does it move around in the water? is it with these propellers that i can see here on either side? yes, there are eight thrusters that are used and it can move it in all six directions. you have got forwards, backwards, left, right, up, down and then you have got roll, pitch and turn. wow, it is pretty manoeuvrable then. yes. all of this technology allows the device to work autonomously, planning its own route to fully scan a structure, with...

Sources, the infrastructure that provides that energy is becoming increasingly critical. now, at present, those facilities are often maintained by human divers working in challenging and hazardous conditions. but here at heriot—watt university theyre developing underwater robotic solutions to help take the strain. and theyve come up with this — the orca autonomous drone. weve got our scanning sonar, a mechanical scanning sonar, that can see all of these structures and items around the vehicl...

Thrusters on board the spacecraft and those thrusters are -- they are intended to control the maneuvers of the spacecraft, they failed. luckily, redundancies were in place and they kept that spacecraft on course to rendezvous with the international space station. boeing says theyre confident that the mission objectives wont be interrupted as a result of this failure and the team is, you know, troubleshooting what exactly happened there, but, you know, boeing and nasa are really hoping that this ...

If successful this time boeing is hoping that nasa astronauts could fly on star liner by the end of the year? >> thats right, erica, but if history is any indicator boeing is likely to miss that goal not just because, you know, these goals and timelines in the space industry always slip, but because, as you pointed out, the starliner program has been plagued by failures and delays. yesterdays launch came after two failed launch attempts, back in 2019 in december they had a launch that had major ...

Liner spacecraft is making its way to the international space station. the spacecraft finally on track to dock at the iss tonight. this following past failed attempts in 2019 and again last year. the capsule did experience a thruster failure at takeoff, but there were redundant systems. rachel crane joins me now. rachel, first question, based on this launch so far, does it look like boeing can stick to its goal to get a crew in space by the end of this year? >> reporter: well, jim, its important...