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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....

Dstl and the NDA, who are keen to realise the potential benefits of such technologies in the nuclear sector. The Telexistence competition aims to develop and demonstrate innovative technologies and novel solutions that have the potential to give military and government personnel, emergency services, or humanitarian workers the capability to operate in hazardous environments without physically being present. Ultimately, this capability will allow a human operator to perform complex tasks and op...