May 9th, 2007 by ketyung
The word “termite” really sounds scary to homeowners. The usual way of termite control that we’ve seen are simply getting your pest controlers (human) to drill several holes around your house area and spray pesticides into it to kill the termites. This method perhaps is not that effective, as once termites spread, they will be at every corner of your house.
The usual way which your pest controllers do, will not be able to kill termites up to the root. Termicam has a pretty unique way of doing it, which is pretty interesting for us, who like gadgetry stuff and robots to take note. Termicam is working on a very tiny robot, the Temibot, which carries video and thermal imaging cameras and they can dive into every corner of your house or office building, where human pest controllers can’t go.
This kind of tiny robot is remote controlled, it carries a video camera and lights so the operator can steer it to its way to dive into every corner and confined spaces of the building. It can go over on a fairly good angle and right itself if necessary. Once a termite hotspot is detected, the Termibot will break the nest of the termites.
The operator can see from the transmitted video and then operate Termibot to inject pest control poisons into the nest. The Termibot is currently still a prototype, which controlled via a long cable. Of course, the one comes to the market later will be fully remote. It’s expected that Termibot to be released this year.
Actually, Termibot is not only restricted to killing termites. According to the creator, Rice, they’ve already had a few enquiries regarding its use in some other areas, such as it could be used as air-con duct cleaner and some other applications such as sewage and water tunnel investigations, electrical equipment testing, military and bomb disposal applications etc.
via [GizMag]
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