European Robotics Hackathon' competitionRobots prove themselves in the nuclear power plant
Radioactive material can escape in the event of a nuclear incident. If the radiation exposure is high, robots are the best way to secure the material. At the end of June 2017, eleven self-constructed robots took on this task at the 'European Robotics Hackathon' - under real-life conditions.
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... Samples containing radioactive cobalt-60 were available. The teams had to locate these with the help of their partly remote-controlled, partly autonomous robots. To do this, the systems of various sizes, ranging in weight from 20 kg to over a ton, had to ...