Rolls-Royce demonstrates robotic bugs as the future of engine maintenance
https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/18/rolls-royce-demonstrates-robotic-bugs-as-the-future-of-engine-maintenance/
Rolls-Royce showed off its new vision for the future of engine maintenance this week at the Farnborough Airshow, and it might make your skin crawl.
As part of its IntelligentEngine vision (which the company announced at the Singapore Airshow earlier this year), it demonstrated plans for both a robotic snake and swarm of cockroach-like miniature robots that, in theory, will work together to inspect the interior of aircraft engines without removing the entire engine.