hello and welcome to technology updates on today's show we learn about the technology that keeps the moscow metro rolling. new serving a modern techniques make waves in the oil industry. and we take a peek through the innovation looking glass in this month's focal point. but first today's technology means that robotic help is no longer yesterday science fiction making many walks of life both easier and safer and this is especially true of this next robotic dream team. brains overbroad the world is a dangerous place so robots are frequently used to scout's hot areas and perform tasks too hazardous for humans in addition to the classic humanoid design is often

since a nature for inspiration this is resulted in myriad weird and wonderful creations but even if we have to go in harm's way a robots will put us back together again if things go wrong however building a machine capable of such precision in highly demanding environments still requires a human touch. set up in st petersburg twenty three years ago employs around a thousand people it's forged a name for itself as a top supplier of high tech inspection and maintenance robots for the nuclear and oil and gas industries the company of ships around twenty thousand pieces of equipment to twenty three countries around the world but the applications of these products on just limited to earth india conses even manufactured components for space ship docking mechanisms and electro mechanical fuel valves for launch vehicles we called so with the company's deputy director to find out more. about.

the mission is to ensure complete control over manufacturing processes and high tech product development we have over three hundred engineers and specialists who from project scope document drafting process development and implementation of create the technology to make the product which is then manufactured using the equipment located on our site here so they still assembled tested and delivered to a client. one of the secrets behind the company's cosmic success is it takes production facilities which occupy around five thousand square meters and continue to grow many of the products play a vital part in the safe operation of energy production facilities so failure is simply not an option for ensure the quality of his equipments remains top notch the company's hundred cakes the best tooling machines from supply is around the world while all these high end machinery may cost a pretty penny the full cycle production means that the company can design and build the products at the drop of a hot disability is not only the company oldest in the likes of general electric

but also resulted in a rather motley crew. since two thousand and five for the nuclear boiling gas and space industries the contest designed and assembled an entire family of robots and it continues to grow the first generation includes a pipe inspection robot which uses ultrasound to check for defects corrosion and other irregularities in high pressure gas pipelines. snakelike welding robots is designed for carrying out a free pass inside nuclear reactors the machine is radiation proof can slip through a gap the size of a much box and slinks along the walls magnetically the company's remote inspection robots uses laser holographic technology to check the integrity of react to seals to prevent any coolant leakage finally one of the latest additions to the family alignments of water pipes deep inside a nuclear reactor if any repairs are required a nifty mini robots can be deployed to touch him. to the pipe was even bass high

tech family of the humble beginnings but we started off with special t.v. cameras capable of working in high radiation levels and underwater but they're used to control the technical process is associated with refusing nuclear reactors and the most important equipment of a nuclear power plant. with. ordinary glass becomes tented in a matter of seconds when exposed to radiation. uses custom made radiation proof glass and use lenses which are then assembled on site for the camera itself the company is gone but so basics using a black and whites video camera cheap avoiding the use of complex chipsets and placing as much of the electronics as possible in a remote block while out of harm's way while the red l.e.d.s. take advantage of the video cheap sensitivity sweet spot in the spectrum they currently working on a color version that works by flickering between red green and blue and combining them to create a color image but whatever the product testing is key. we

test every component separately as well as the parts of the final product and then the final product itself but we cooperate with a number of facilities that allow us to test them under intense gamma ray conditions some products undergo field testing at our client's facilities with the . dia cons also has its own testing facilities and we arrive just in time to see one of the latest gizmos just to start. compressor stations can say no holds hangal of pipes that can't be checked by the unfortunately named pigs pipe inspection gauges dia concepts preached robots on the other hand can move along even the most twisted of pipelines thanks to a standard check they can push against the inside of the pipe with a force of one hundred eighty kilograms while its electromagnetic acoustic transducer doesn't even require direct contact with the pipe he does takes microscopic defects and corrosion could. it's

a massive problems down the line it has a number of cameras for visual inspection and is in service in countries around the world compresses stations are frequently located in far flung places inaccessible by standard transport means so the company has converted a six wheel drive tamas that can even the most rugged terrain with ease and transmit all the states of parts of basically satellite uplink. all of the technology being made today requires super precise components with impressive capabilities but in limited quantities maximum a couple of hundred a year. plans to switch to mass production which will mean different technologies and approaches which is why we're building another factory. attention to detail has security took place among the elite robotics companies of the world he continues to strive three find his designs and solve a more complicated tasks with his new production facilities just around the corner i'm sure will be see much more of his high tech help soon so next time you turn on

the t.v. or put the kettle on spare a thought for the robotics team to help keep the energy which is safe under. the most is the third largest in the world it's the hearts of the city transporting around nine million people every day in its web of tamils needless to say all this traffic takes its toll. on something online. every morning i joined the throngs of people commuting to work in the hustle and bustle of the moscow metro. on the red line was one of the first stations built. opened in one thousand nine hundred thirty five as a showpiece for the soviet government the beauty of the miniature is known the world over almost eighty years later there are still plans for its expansion so the need to ensure the safety of both old lines and new has never been greater. metroid inspection technology has come

a long way since the days of hundred push trolleys culminating in a scenario the moscow michel's latest weapon in the never ending battle against where. the train can check the track and at the same speed as normal passing to trains meaning the patients can be carried out during the day hundred nights but so deal with the longer peak times including passing to traffic you need to. just speed. the functions of three. trains. no one takes one required heart the number of. the wrong. diagnostic equipment capable of checking to see six of the. touch to the rear ultrasound to check for signs of. measurement system at the front. between the rails and their respective heights. comprises for lead us. to

measure the clearance in the. visual inspection. and the whole carry weight down with. the rails that. the masses of information generated by the. process in real time by. its closely monitored by the. glitches in the absence of signal deep below the capital any problem areas. along the rails the hypnotic video footage can also be rewound and scrutinized by specialists. in addition to the existing two systems that we used that's the trick monitoring system and the fold to take system we also introduced some new ones. three d. laser system high speed video monitoring of tracks and joints and we also have

a third monitoring system the checks on the condition of the power rail checking on its temperature and the visual data systems like that have never been used before. one hundred fifty kilometers by twenty twenty i'm sure the scenario. one will have its work cut out. the company behind the scenario is starting with defective scopes twenty five years ago their equipment is now accounts for almost three quarters of russian railways diagnostic fleet they have more than three hundred fifty trains and over two thousand five hundred manual diagnostic tools in operation wills white. the company had only three members of staff when it was launched in no employs over three hundred people including marketing production and engineering specialists while his team of experienced programmers writes all this software in-house the company's actively branching out

into new markets including china germany and the c.i.s. so you certainly won't find any of the team resting on their laurels. but. of course that we will definitely try to apply this experience to other russian metro systems. and there is a demand for such trains across russia. as far as i know the moscow metro plans to build another scenario. which we believe will be even better than this one. your web. princess is the company's flagship mainline model is definitely no slowcoach as it's currently only one of a few diagnostic chains in the world capable of checking every millimeter of chalk as a one hundred forty kilometers an hour this means you can fit in with existing timetables and eliminate destruction to services the latest effective scope has overcome

traditional problems with a deflection of ultrasound in metal which has limited speeds the defect scope releases a thin film of water on the rails to improve the readings. before being done on a passenger car that's equipped with a bolster. this is the first time that a non-contact centering system has ever been installed on the main. pretty we're also making use of a brand new detection system as well as various new software solutions they allow us to implement a lot of new monitoring technology which in turn enables higher monitoring speeds. the high speed subsume was only introduced four years ago but construction has already started on a new four hundred kilometer an hour line whatever the future of rail transport i'm sure will pay a key role in keeping plans on track and getting me to work. that's just the end of

the first half so don't see after the break. i think. everybody. should you know the price is the only industry specifically mentioned in the constitution and the concept that's because a free and open process is critical to our democracy right albus. in fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of our government and across several we've been hijacked lying handful of transnational corporations that will profit by destroying what our founding fathers one school class i'm job market and on this show we reveal the big picture of what's actually going on in the world to go beyond identifying the problem to try to fix rational debate and

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. much to. welcome back before we continue with the rest of the show let's see what else has been happening this month. bytes russian internet week took place towards the end of last month charting around fifteen thousand visitors arguably the most important event in the room at calendar it gives dr drew joins the newcomers alike the chance to discuss topics from advertising social media and digital marketing to big data cyber security and online regulation. i'm talking about dots through giants most popular search engine gun decks continue to these global expansion by rolling out the popular maps service worldwide the press conference was fittingly held in

a moscow planetarium. had to translate over seven million street town and city names from two hundred thirty seven countries and the maps will be updated every three months the company had to develop the technology to process the vast amounts of cartographic data one hundred times faster than the old service our own lying rendering system process is user requests to more the amish they need and does it very quickly in order to develop this technology we had to receive all the mathematical algorithms we had to start from scratch and this was a real breakthrough. so the largest of four reactors arrived at the oil refinery on the twenty eighth of october one thousand four hundred fifty two and james was transported two hundred three kilometers by a three hundred eighty four wheel parts form at a nippy two kilometers an hour the feed has made it into the russian guinness book of records as the heaviest cargo transported on public roads to l'oreal unesco for women in science awards ceremony was held on the twelfth of november it's supported

by the russian academy of sciences and is designed to raise the profile of female scientists over five hundred applications are made for one of the ten fellowships. each win awards away with a four hundred rouble grant because they're worth it. big business the backbone of the russian economy and their lifeline during the winter months fortunately the world still has plenty but the days of cheap so-called easy oil. check. some of the world's oldest oil fields have been pumping for over a century. always finding inspired ways of boosting and maintaining outputs but there are limits eventually we're going to have to find new deposits. russia has twenty seven point seven billion tons of oil making up ten percent of the world's supply the vast majority of which lies in western siberia around sixty percent of the total is considered difficult to extract so the future of the oil

industry relies on finding new sources many of which al to see. the huge pressure to find oil rests on the shoulders of geologists like these chaps they examine the terrain features rocks and soil types to find the right conditions for oil chops puts unfortunately for these guys traditional servants it makes no longer come up to scratch. the region is rich in natural resources particularly oil and natural gas but when faced with depleting oil fields and strict export targets in the mid eighty's the region had to come up with new ways of squeezing the last drops of oil out of existing fields. polytechnic university has an impressive archive of course samples taken from the region's wells. on the process. can be used to determine the reservoir storage capacity and the ability of fluids to flow through the rock these measurements are used to determine the recoverable reserves and the rates at which they can be extracted. the process itself involves working out the chemical makeup

of the rock. someplace then heated and compressed in a chamber to simulate the conditions under which it will be too. and the results of these tests help determine the best training method when it comes to the crunch. the extreme testing conditions are not even the hardest of rocks so there's no room for error as feeling for another sample is no small task. so trust the skolkovo innovation sense in in moscow to have the. vision has a way of conducting an infinite number of experiments while leaving the core sample completely in. physics in creating a three dimensional virtual model of the rock and simulating how it would behave under various physical processes. modern wells are very sensitive to methods of increasing extraction rates development so sometimes you need to conduct hundreds

or even thousands of experiments before drilling with. a real sample would withstand it so that's where computer modeling comes in with. the precious core sample is placed in a computer tomography. the machine takes a series of x. ray slices of it which are then put together to create a full three d. virtual model which contains all the paul spaces. it's along with these chemical make determine its physical properties while the resulting image wouldn't look out of place in a modern art gallery the information it can provide is worth more than its worth of affection. the ability to test even the most fragile of samples to destruction until the heart's content provides invaluable information on the feasibility of launching production at new fields and boosting outputs takes the sting ones.

is the correct interpretation but you have to analyze the raw data the machines give you and translate it into the indicators geologists. used to so that later they can choose the best method the women of the world which. impressive though this technology may be to take full advantage of it you have to find oil in the first place continental shelf has some of the largest and least explored oil reserves in the world with such huge potential they formed under the gaze of oil companies hunting for oil at sea. of unique challenges. has developed a painted technology that takes. the hydrographic serving technique comprises a series of nodes that can create three d. images of the ocean floor and is faster and more cost effective than traditional methods the technology behind the company's success is a result of the work of the institute of earth physics where research into ocean

surveying started in the ninety's. recently it was really only a bit of scientific fun. five years ago when i didn't think this project was worth developing marketing for the industry or what new technology emerged. new energy saving microprocessors new microcircuits. digital converters rapid wireless copying technology at speeds of up to fifteen. that's much quicker than wife. did over a few days then transfer it in a matter of minutes. to continue registration. on the black sea has drawn the attention of some of russia's leading oil companies before setting sail the fully automated node pret checked and configured that power supply and electronics can also be controlled remotely once the ship reaches the required coordinates they're cast over the side and plunge to the bottom of the

seabed thanks to their disposable. navigation system but it is their exact location and. capable of gathering accurate data up to seven kilometers below the floor the devices are deployed along a pre-determined pattern it's equal intervals to form a few d. grid the size of the lattice can be as large or small as necessary while the nose direct contact with the seabed rules out any interference from weather or shipping and towed behind the ship releases powerful acoustic shock waves that travel deep into the earth's crust and by the nodes. realistically companies can drill down to three four or even five kilometers the depth of most oil wells putting professional geologists are mostly interested in studying all the layers above the upper mantle you months but our technology allows us to study the upper mantle as well and one through. the mapping is complete this signal is given for the nose to ditch their

own kids and return to the surface the anchors are completely environmentally friendly and decompose into quartz sand and water in just four weeks when the devices transfer all the information wirelessly in less time than it takes to ready them for the next mission. at the pool after that we get all of the data over to the geologists for interpretation. by using all kinds of interpretation software what they study the image tributes in many different ways. and the data they get from that can be used to locate drill sites and reservoirs. meanwhile another skolkovo resident flow dynamics just so happens to have developed a piece of software for simulating hydrocarbon fields. a gateway uses geological and seismic survey information to create interactive models of existing and

completely on top reservoirs the application lets engineers run dynamic reservoir simulations to find out how well would behave for example if water. team pressure chemicals are introduced as part of the extraction process this helps save both time and resources when finding the right drilling method and ensures the field is safe when operations eventually commenced. two thousand and thirteen is a very special year for us for the first time in our history overseas sales will exceed our sales in russia. our global partners include such well known companies as the u.s. based occidental petroleum pioneer natural resources the japanese jog meg and malaysian company in fact we're seeking a global presence now. in the meantime russian oil majors such sleek oil boss netting gazprom already relying on the latest surveying and modeling technology to

improve efficiency and safety as well as keep our petrol tanks full i'm also sure it'll come in handy with the technology cool challenges the shelf presents. the open innovations form as the name was suggest is the place to be if you have an innovation to showcase and life forms so naturally the team has to get in on the action. point the open innovation forum was held only for the second time at the start of november the aim is to promote global cooperation in advanced technologies and innovation as well as bring business education and government representatives together as well as the usual industry stalwarts we saw lots of new players looking to carve out their own niche but there's always the proof is in the pudding. continue to shift from novelty to utility with this educational tool that promises to bring physics lessons to life. transports was also a key theme with compazine materials making for faster racing cars and leading the

switch to green transportation with his folding electric car while the award winning reacts synthesizer can make even the most. people. still have a long way to go. that really. even caught the eye of the russian government. don't be surprised if you see some of them in future. and we. enjoy the ride.

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