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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Only seven of the eleven teams managed to complete all three competition categories '3D position map', 'Radiation map' and 'Manipulation' with their robot. The picture shows the robot 'IMM MSAS' of the Polish team 'IMM' from the Institute of Mathematical Machines. The competition manager and deputy head of the 'Cognitive Mobile Systems' department at the Fraunhofer FKIE, ...