Forth Engineering, a robotics company working at Europe’s largest nuclear site, is developing a six-legged machine that will work handling nuclear waste in areas to dangerous for humans to enter.
The £500,000, six-legged machines, which are about the size of a coffee table, are each armed with a giant pincer on the front to grab contaminated material. The obvious advantage that these robots have over humans is that they can operate in contaminated areas.
In fact, the extremely hostile working environment at Sellafield is proving to be a fertile location for the research and development of drones and robots. Along with being manually operated the robots will be loaded with artificial intelligence software that will allow a team of the robots to work independently.
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