Robin Longbottom looks at how manual labour was still relied on in some industries despite the advent of mechanisation ...

Abstract: This letter presents CCRobot-IV, the fourth version of a climbing robot designed for bridge cable-inspection tasks. CCRobot-IV inherits design features from the previous CCRobot series, and ...

Abstract: Cable-driven parallel robots (CDPRs) are robots with novel structures, wherein flexible cables, instead of rigid links, are employed to pull mobile platforms. This structural change enables ...

When someone said, “There was no way out,” it wasn’t exaggeration. The sinkhole opened into a massive underground cave system hidden beneath snow and ice. Conventional recovery vehicles couldn’t get ...

Believe it or not, the Jeep Gladiator has never been offered with a factory winch before now. What’s stranger is that no stock midsize truck has ever come fitted with one, even with the recent surge ...

Norway’s Ostensjo Rederi has signed up in Spain for its most powerful anchor-handling tug (AHT) so far. Astilleros Gondan will deliver the next-generation vessel in the first quarter of 2028. The ...

Traveling between checkpoints in RV There Yet is no ordinary feat, as you have to navigate through the treacherous terrain and evade inevitable wildlife encounters. To make matters worse, your vehicle ...

Harbor Freight's Badland winches work well and are quite affordable for your off-road recovery and utility needs. There are three lines of Badland winches with capacities of up to 12,000 pounds and ...

In hindsight, I am still not sure why the operators of the Danish-flagged MV Coco allowed me onboard. By the time I arrived last June, the vessel had been sailing for several weeks in the Bismarck Sea ...