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In this study, a new method to advance and to carry wired sensors like a camera inside narrow and curving pipelines is proposed, which is aimed at watching the condition inside the pipelines. In order to increase the advancing distance and to carry a wired camera, the alternately-actuated drawing out type drive is proposed. In this method, since the tube is alternately pressurized, the area of the tube which passes in Λ-drive can be confined. As a result, the robot has many features with the superiority of the drawing-out type drive actuator. Finally, it is experimentally verified through experiments that this robot is able to go through some narrow and curving pipelines.