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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... crane to the affected reactor area at a height of 40 meters. Once there, they then had to create a three-dimensional map of the area (competition category '3D location map'). The robots also had to locate the sources of radiation, ...