Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A robot dog equipped with a contamination swabbing tool has completed a successful trial at the Sellafield nuclear site (Image: ...

Bark!Bark!Bark! Sellafield Ltd is to use Boston Dynamics' Spot robot dogs in "routine, business-as-usual operations" amid the ongoing cleanup and decommissioning of the notorious UK nuclear site.… ...

Sellafield has successfully trialed Boston Dynamics’ Spot robot to safely perform radioactive swabbing in hazardous nuclear decommissioning areas.

The UK has deployed a robot dog at a nuclear site to reactivate a dormant crane used for handling radioactive waste. The four-legged robot, Boston Dynamics’ Spot, was sent into a potentially hazardous ...

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A simulation of the Pile Fuel Cladding Silo - one of the oldest waste stores and one of the highest hazard facilities on the UK's Sellafield site - is making it safer to upgrade robots handling waste ...