Apart from adding new features to its services and releasing experimental apps, Facebook also works hard to help communities who need it. Recently we saw the company collaborate with CBSE to make digital education accessible for everyone. Now, the social media giant has built a robot that can travel on electric power lines while spinning high-speed fiber-optic cables around that medium voltage (MV) line.
As per Facebook’s research, there are still over 3 to 5 billion people on this planet who are living without the internet. However, with the growing internet needs of the global population, the company predicts that soon it will be difficult for telecom operators to provide high-speed internet connectivity to all the people of the world.
Well, the new fiber-spinning robot from the Facebook Connectivity team and its partners aims to do just that. It will automatically deploy fiber-optic cables in small- and medium-sized areas, without any help from humans.
Now, Facebook states that although there has been “tremendous improvements” in the fiber cable designs, there has been close to no development in the deployment systems of these cables. So, the company combined the magic of robotics with fiber-optic cable design to develop this unique robot.
Internet for All
So, with the introduction of this robot, Facebook aims to generalize the fiber deployment system, regardless of rural areas and urban areas.
