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.