April, 2011:

SEPTA Energy and a subsidiary of Seven Energy Group in Nigeria hired Swiss Inspection Specialists (SGS) Industrial Services for the inspection of their pipeline project that had been invested into two gas fields in Nigeria for $420 million. In this inspection a pipeline inspecting robot was used. This pipeline inspecting robot was called as the X-ray crawler, its task was to scan thousands of welds on the 60km-long gas pipeline between Ikot Abasi and the Eket Power Station in Nigeria that was operated by an inspection team of ten experts used a robotic X-ray crawler.

This creation is funny where the eating grass animal turned into an electric device and eating grass again. This electric sheep actually is a land mower which turned into an robotic sheep mower called Mower. Mower! Osman Khan is the creator, he was a visiting assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon’s School of Art when he designed this sheep Mower robot. Sheep Mower can be found on the grass at the Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens when it became one of the BigBots for Robot 250. Equipped on this robot are electronical device to support the Mower to act like a real sheep. There are grass-moving device in its mouth, a navigational and obstacle avoidance sensors.