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The aim is to explore the application of humanoid robots in enhancing structural health monitoring for civil infrastructure.

Towards next-generation autonomous structural health monitoring and inspection with humanoid robots

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Demonstrates RoboInspect's capability to enhance indoor inspections, improving efficiency in civil infrastructure monitoring.

The aim is to explore the application of humanoid robots in enhancing structural health monitoring for civil infrastructure.
Development of RoboInspect, an autonomous inspection framework for humanoid robots
Integration of a reinforcement learning-based locomotion controller and a vision-based perception module
Evaluation through two case studies in a university building highlighting indoor inspection tasks
RoboInspect shows reliable autonomous navigation and effective crack detection in defined routes
The system can detect cracks as narrow as 0.2 mm
Demonstrates the feasibility of humanoid robots as agents for infrastructure inspection

Wang et al. (2026) studied this question.

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