Looks like they finally are sending in a robot.
What gets me is they might drill a 7th hole into the 'Kitchen'. The place miners are trained to go to.
Why didn't they do that in the first or second place? am I missing something?
Cheers
That article (sort of) answers my question. It appears as though this unit was built specifically for this purpose.
They are addressing several questions others have brought up: dropping this through an unlined hole, recovery, righting itself.
It surprises me that some organization like the Bureau of Mines hasn't put together a spec. that addresses these issues, funded some R&D to solve the problems and had a couple of working units on standby.
This Yahoo article has some picture of the robot. Click on the left image.
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