Rolls-Royce is working on a ROBOTIC COCKROACH that can fix plane engines.....

Rolls-Royce, a company perhaps best known for airplane engines and fine automobiles, is now creating tiny cockroaches that can crawl inside tight spaces to spot potential problems and perform routine maintenance.

These roaches aren't of the household variety, however they are robots.

Rolls-Royce's robotic roaches would stand about 10mm tall(about half an inch) and weigh in just a few ounces. Each would be equipped with a camera as well as optics for 3-D scanning that would allow engineers to remotely assets problems before retooling the robo- roaches to perform the desired fix.

According to Rolls-Royce technology specialist James Cell:

They could go off scuttling around reaching all different parts of the combustion chamber, for example, to scope out any danger or to remove debris. A second robot- one designed specifically for the job, or re-designed on the fly to perform less common jobs - would follow to complete the repair.

The buddy system, so to speak, allows the robots to perform simple tasks and diagnose problems. It also means that low-skilled workers could deploy the bots to diagnose an issue while waiting on engineers to retool them for a more complicated fix.

Once done, the robots could be programmed to leave the space, or get "flushed out" by the engine itself.

Current prototypes are much larger than the desired size and not quite ready for these types of repairs. A Rolls-Royce representative, through, tells TNW that they could be ready to use in as little two years.

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