Engineers in Brazil deploy a robot dog to enter pipelines of a R$ 134.7 million project, facing mud, sand, humidity, and toxic gases, and send data in real-time without exposing workers.

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Published on 21/06/2026 at 12:41

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Equipped with cameras, sensors, and lighting, the robot dog DOM has already conducted five inspections in pipelines between Santos and Guarujá, facing mud, humidity, sand, and toxic gases without directly exposing workers to dangerous confined environments

The robot dog DOM has already conducted five inspections in pipelines connecting the Santos Port Channel to the Vicente de Carvalho district in Guarujá. Remotely controlled, the equipment faces mud, sand, humidity, and toxic gases, reducing workers’ exposure in confined spaces.

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Robot dog DOM enhances safety in inspections

Equipped with cameras, lighting, and sensors, DOM collects information during inspections and transmits the data in real-time to a Sabesp database. Its operational autonomy reaches up to two hours.

The equipment is controlled by occupational safety engineers and was developed in partnership with TPF Engenharia. The technology allows for the evaluation of hard-to-access areas before team entry.

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Pipeline will supply Vicente de Carvalho

The inspected pipeline will be responsible for supplying the Vicente de Carvalho district. The Sabesp project receives a total investment of R$ 134.7 million.

According to Andrenandes Gonçalves, Maintenance and Operational Services Manager at Sabesp in Baixada Santista, the use of the robot makes operations safer and more efficient.

Engineers in Brazil deploy robot dog to enter pipelines between Santos and Guarujá, face toxic gases, mud, and confined spaces, film everything, and make Sabesp inspections safer and more efficient — Image: Reproduction / social media

Sabesp considers expanding use of technology

After the operations conducted between Santos and Guarujá, the company is considering using the robot dog DOM in other sanitation projects in the state of São Paulo.

The meaning of the name DOM was not provided by Sabesp after questioning by g1.

This article was prepared based on information from Sabesp and g1, with data, numbers, and statements preserved as per the consulted material.

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Engineers in Brazil deploy a robot dog to enter pipelines of a R$ 134.7 million project, facing mud, sand, humidity, and toxic gases, and send data in real-time without exposing workers.

Equipped with cameras, sensors, and lighting, the robot dog DOM has already conducted five inspections in pipelines between Santos and Guarujá, facing mud, humidity, sand, and toxic gases without directly exposing workers to dangerous confined environments

Robot dog DOM enhances safety in inspections

Pipeline will supply Vicente de Carvalho

Sabesp considers expanding use of technology

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Equipped with cameras, sensors, and lighting, the robot dog DOM has already conducted five inspections in pipelines between Santos and Guarujá, facing mud, humidity, sand, and toxic gases without directly exposing workers to dangerous confined environments

Robot dog DOM enhances safety in inspections

Pipeline will supply Vicente de Carvalho

Sabesp considers expanding use of technology

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Chinese woman planted trees for decades while sand buried part of her house, received $5,000 from an American in 1999, and helped transform the desert into a forest of 8 million trees in China.

In the cold desert of Ladakh, where it hardly rains, engineer Sonam Wangchuk created the ice stupa, a tower that freezes winter water and stores it for irrigating crops in the spring, a simple engineering feat that mimics nature.

Almost 6,000 residents live concentrated along a single street nearly 9 km long in the interior of Poland. Houses form a continuous row, and behind them, narrow agricultural strips emerge, creating one of the most unusual rural patterns in Europe.

Described by astronauts as one of the most unlikely natural phenomena on Earth, the Okavango Delta spreads over up to 15,000 square kilometers in the middle of the desert and transforms Botswana into a living labyrinth of channels, islands, and flooded areas.

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