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New self-propelled robotic device pinpoints leaks in pipes more accurately than existing methods

Green Car Congress

Researchers at MIT and King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) in Saudi Arabia have devised a robotic system that can detect leaks in gas, oil and water pipelines at a rapid pace and with high accuracy by sensing a large pressure change at leak locations.

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Behind the Wheel, Under the Hood of World’s First 500-Mile EV

Cars That Think

seconds at over 233 km/h (145 mph), and 0-60 mph in less than 2.5 billion in new investment cash, and 65-percent owned by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, saw its stock surge up to 47 percent on news of the first deliveries. Lucid plans additional factories in Europe, China and Saudi Arabia.

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