Envisage a robot that is as big as a small house. At 7.8m x 7.8m x 5.6m, this giant can give the whales a scare. True, the UT-1 Ultra Trencher is the world’s largest subsea robot. Weighing 60 tons on land and priced at a whopping £10 million, everything about this robot is ‘massive’. And if you thought giants are ungainly and do not move fast, you are wrong! The Ultra Trencher can move at 2 to 3 knots under the sea. Designed to trench pipelines for telecom and oil companies, the Ultra Trencher uses propellers to dive down up to a mile below the surface. Subsequently, it uses ‘jet swords’ to inject water at high pressure and loosen the surface. Post this, it buries the pipelines to protect them from disasters. The UT-1 Ultra Trencher dishes out more than 2 MW of total power and is capable of providing 1.5MW of jetting energy to the surface. It can bury pipelines of up to 1m in diameter to a depth of 1500m. Built by Soil Machine Dynamics (SMD), this subsea robot is one monster, indeed!
Via:Primidi
