USA: Every day, leaks in pipes waste billions of litres of water. Pipebots are tiny robots created by researchers at the University of Sheffield's Integrated Civil and Infrastructure Research Centre (ICAIR) to avoid this. Artificial intelligence (AI) will be used by these robots to patrol the pipe network, look for any problems, and protect it from leaks.

In the UK, underground pipe leakage results in a daily water loss of about three billion litres. These pipe networks demand a lot of maintenance, and it can often be challenging to locate the leak's source without going into the ground. In this situation, Pipebots are useful. Finding leaks will be made simpler and more environmentally friendly by using robots.

Pipebots are mobile robots the size of toy cars that have all-terrain legs and cameras. They can inspect pipes for cracks.

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Professor Kirill Horoshenkov, one of the project's participants, described their mechanism in the following way: "With a microphone to hear the pipe, they move along it while taking pictures. They are intended to determine whether or not the pipe will eventually develop a fault."

According to Professor Netta Cohen of the University of Leeds, she and her team are working on a system that would use a larger "mother" robot to transport and place a number of smaller robots into narrow pipes.

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Since GPS would not be available underground, these Pipebots would communicate with one another using sound or Wi-Fi. The "mother" would pick them up once their work was finished.

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Though a precise timetable is not yet available, researchers at ICAIR predict that Pipebots will begin monitoring the UK's water network within the next five years. These will undoubtedly help decrease water waste.