Story by Abby Korfhage | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Louisville District | 09.30.2024
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Louisville District’s dam safety team, along with members from the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, also known as ERDC, used the USACE Dambot 1.0 to perform a conduit inspection at Taylorsville Lake Dam in Taylorsville, Kentucky, Sept. 19, 2024....
Story by Trevor Welsh | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Fort Worth District | 05.26.2021
In an effort to prevent personnel exposure to high-risk environments and dangerous but necessary maintenance tasks, the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) is currently developing an autonomous robotic system known as DamBot. As part of this pilot program, ERDC’s Information Technology Laboratory’s Robotic Assessment of Dams (DamBot) team traveled to U.S. Army......
Courtesy Story | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research and Development Center | 03.09.2021
A U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) team is designing robotic systems to keep humans out of harm’s way. Sounding more like the plot of an action movie than a research and development project, a robotic system known as Dambot takes the human element out of a dangerous but necessary U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) maintenance task. The cutting-edge technology......
