Here come the robots.

Autonomous crawling robots may soon be crawling in sewage pipes under the streets to help fix the city’s wastewater woes.

The robots would allow the city to scan for pipe problems three to four times faster than underground video cameras, allowing it to make repairs more quickly, said the senior water resources manager Lisa Rhea.

The City Council is mulling signing a $600,000 contract with RedZone Robotics to provide its “Solo” autonomous crawling robots for the Water Resources Department. The final contract should go before the council in August, said RedZone Robotics sales operations manager John DePasquale.

Full story at the Tampa Bay Times.