New intelligent underground robot for urban environments.
The main objective of the Badger project
is to develop a new type of autonomous robots.
Underground robots with intelligent navigation for human environments.
We can imagine a 20 cm. diameter and 80 cm. long snake,
which has several modules joined together,
and, therefore, it can tilt one module over the other.
The Badger robot has various technological innovations,
one is its autonomous navigation, all sensors, georadars
and computers are on board,
so they decide at every moment where it has to go to.
Also, the tunnel where the cables and pipes go
through a 3D printer on the robot itself.
It is an important innovation.
The main applications focus on making pipelines
without opening trenches in cities for telecommunications,
optical fibre, small gas or water pipes, etc.
It also has applications in rescue operations, for example,
in landslides or in mines, searching people
who have had an accident or in other type of environments.
The project is funded by the European Union
by the Horizon 2020 program.
It has funds of 3.7 million of euros
and has seven partners from four countries.
In collaboration with: