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Tuesday, December 08, 2020

Boston Dynamics Helping Chernobyl Decommission

 Boston Dynamics is doing quite well with its mostly telepresence Spot Robotics.  Here another example, with apparent connection to specialized sensors. 

Boston Dynamics' Spot Is Helping Chernobyl Move Towards Safe Decommissioning

Legged robots are uniquely qualified for sensing around what's left of Chernobyl's Reactor   By Evan Ackerman in IEEE Spectrum

In terms of places where you absolutely want a robot to go instead of you, what remains of the utterly destroyed Chernobyl Reactor 4 should be very near the top of your list. The reactor, which suffered a catastrophic meltdown in 1986, has been covered up in almost every way possible in an effort to keep its nuclear core contained. But eventually, that nuclear material is going to have to be dealt with somehow, and in order to do that, it’s important to understand which bits of it are just really bad, and which bits are the actual worst. And this is where Spot is stepping in to help.    ... 

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