How the Pyramid Rover robot explored the Great Pyramid's hidden shafts in 2002
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The article recounts the 2002 National Geographic expedition to explore mysterious shafts in the Great Pyramid of Giza's Queen's Chamber using a custom-built robot called the Pyramid Rover. Designed by engineer Ng Tze Chuen and built by iRobot (makers of the Roomba), the robot navigated the narrow, 200-foot shaft, drilled through a limestone door, and discovered a second sealed door beyond it. The mission combined ancient mystery with early consumer robotics technology, though the ultimate secrets behind the shafts remain unsolved.
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· 3 pulledIt was discovered by a British engineer in 1872, together with a similar passage on the room's opposite side.
Both these southern and northern shafts had been bricked over, and neither seemed to extend all the way through the pyramid, as there were no openings on the outside.
The questions persisted for more than a century.
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