The decommissioning team at Sellafield continues to find new ways of using Spot the robot dog: the quadruped robot has successfully carried out swabbing, a vital task in monitoring radioactivity.

A round-up of the most impressive construction pictures from the past month.

The nuclear industry needs to attract new talent and turbocharge it with technology in order to meet the sector’s massive growth.

A remote control robotic arm has been successfully tested for nuclear decommissioning at Sellafield.

AtkinsRéalis and technology specialist Createc will trial robots and autonomous systems to remotely sort and segregate radioactive waste at a former nuclear power station.

AtkinsRéalis and Sellafield have successfully trialled the remote operation of Spot the robot dog from a different location. They claim this is an industry-first milestone “that demonstrates the potential of virtual site access on nuclear licensed sites, safely and securely”.

Skanska is expanding its data academy and addressing the impact and opportunities of AI.

Six retrofits must take place every minute between now and 2050 for net zero targets to be met. Can AI come to the rescue of this daunting challenge? Lucy Lyons, co-founder of Kestrix, explains how building the ‘Google Maps of heat loss’ could help.

BIM and asset management, data dictionaries, standards, error-reducing technologies, and parametric design: these are all areas that are complex until explained by an expert in terms we can understand.

Is AI just what the construction industry needs to take a significant step forward? Or is the technology the beginning of the end?

Car-mounted mobile mapping could transform the approach to pothole repair, explains Peter Haddock.

Housebuilder Cala Group has chosen UK Connect to supply all its construction sites with 5G and IT connectivity.

A free site diary app has been launched by Work Wallet following trials with Bowmer + Kirkland, GMI Construction and GF Tomlinson.

Students from New College Lanarkshire won all three categories – gold, silver and bronze – in the digital construction category, in the WorldSkills UK competition last week.

Leica BLK laser scanners have gone autonomous and can fly and walk: the scanners have been fitted to Boston Dynamics’ Spot the robot dog and a drone.