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Bristol professors to play role in creating robots for dangerous nuclear sites
UWE Bristol
01 Mar 2017
The University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) is part of a consortium which has received a £4.6 million grant to build a new generation of robots for use in nuclear sites. The funding from the ...
ENRICH will test robots in real world radiological and nuclear scenarios
Frank E. Schneider
13 Feb 2017
There is significant potential for the use of unmanned vehicles in scenarios involving radiological and nuclear (RN) threats. The European Reference Network for Critical Infrastructure Protection (ERN...
American robots in Japan highlight nuclear safety myth
Frank Tobe
04 Jul 2011
... Japan’s nuclear power authority didn’t have any emergency robots ready to assist with damage and control. Why were they caught unprepared?
... The ‘safety myth’: From the N...
Pics of iRobot’s PackBots inside Fukashima
Frank Tobe
18 Apr 2011
... First really good video from Japan’s IDG of how robots are being used inside the Fukashima nuclear power plant and also outside for remote controlled cleanup and debris removal.
... Drone vi...
