Robot, drone safeguard power supply amid heavy snow in C China

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Robot, drone safeguard power supply amid heavy snow in C China

STORY: Robot, drone safeguard power supply amid heavy snow in C China SHOOTING TIME: Jan. 21 & 22, 2024 DATELINE: Jan. 24, 2024 LENGTH: 00:00:51 LOCATION: CHANGSHA, China CATEGORY: TECHNOLOGY SHOTLIST: 1. various of staff arranging the drone's operation 2. various of drone placing the robot on the line 3. various of the robot deicing the power line STORYLINE: Heavy snow swept through most parts of central China's Hunan Province on Monday. To ensure power supply amid extreme weather, a drone and a smart deicing robot were adopted in the maintenance work. The drone, acting as a transporter, accurately placed the robot on the power line. It then took only about 5 minutes for the robot to remove the ice on a section of power line that is over 200 meters long. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Changsha, China. (XHTV)

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