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Industry and Academic Partnership to Create Immersive Robotic Technologies for Bomb Disposal and Nuclear Decommissioning Telexistence Technologies to Remove Humans from Hazardous Environments
Written by AZoRoboticsApr 23 2021
Cyberselves, a robotics software company, working with the National Robotarium, based at Edinburgh’s Heriot-Watt University, and Resolve Robotics, have been awarded funding to develop telexistence technologies for hazardous environments.
Underwater manipulation robotics. Image Credit: Cyberselves
Telexistence and other immersive technologies find ways to physically remove humans from dangerous situations such as nuclear decommissioning and bomb disposal by using a robot as a surrogate self. The technologies allow humans to experience and operate in remote environments via a robot without risk.