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$MIT researchers found a near-perfect match between their pipeline fracture simulation (bottom) and an image of the Deepwater Horizon's ruptured pipeline taken by an underwater robot.$

Forecasting pipe fractures

MIT simulation accurately reconstructs pipe fractures formed in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon accident.

August 15, 2011

A spherical robot equipped with a camera may navigate underground pipes of a nuclear reactor by propelling itself with an internal network of valves and pumps.

Inside the innards of a nuclear reactor

Tiny robots may monitor underground pipes for radioactive leaks.

July 21, 2011

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Forecasting pipe fractures

Inside the innards of a nuclear reactor