George Mills

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George Mills is a pioneering roboticist whose work is reshaping the inspection of critical energy infrastructure. His primary research focuses on in-pipe robotics, wireless power transfer, and magnetic locomotion systems for challenging pipeline environments. Mills’s most significant contribution is his comprehensive work on "unpiggable" pipelines—those too narrow, complex, or obstacle-ridden for conventional inspection tools. His 2017 paper on this topic, with 58 citations, systematically addresses the vast range of in-pipe robots designed for diameters from 10 mm to over a meter, tackling obstacles like T-sections and elbows. He further advanced the field by developing a miniature magnetic wall-climbing robot capable of inspecting both small and large bore pipes—a feat previously impractical with wall-press methods. In a notable engineering achievement, Mills has also pioneered wireless power transfer for gas pipe inspection robots, demonstrating a prototype that could eliminate the need for tethers, dramatically extending operational range. Though his citation counts are still growing, his work stands at the intersection of practical infrastructure maintenance and cutting-edge robotics, offering scalable solutions for the energy sector’s most inaccessible assets.