Cleaning up old nuclear waste sites around the country is a long, expensive and dangerous process—and autonomous robot research at the University of Nevada, Reno promises to help that process with a combination of advanced, intelligent, autonomous aerial and ground robots with a new level of perception, navigation and planning abilities.
The College of Engineering’s Autonomous Robots Lab, under the direction of Assistant Professor Kostas Alexis, has completed a proof of concept for an aerial robot, a drone, that flies by itself in dark corridors looking for nuclear radiation and toxic chemicals …
http://uasmagazine.com/articles/1635/drones-tapped-for-nuclear-waste-site-clean-up
UAS Magazine | Jan. 19, 2017
