Remotely operated robots are set to begin work in the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant’s basements next week, Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) announced on March 21. Their mission: remove ...

A new robotic system is being piloted at Russia’s Bochvar Institute to automatically sort and certify solid radioactive waste ...

File. Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, also known as TEPCO, the operator of Japan’s wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, reveals a robot to be used to retrieve debris at the power ...

The operators of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan demonstrated a new robot to help clean up melted fuel debris on Tuesday, according to a report from the Associated Press. The robot ...

A company demonstrated a remote-controlled robot for retrieving melted fuel debris at Japan's destroyed Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The plan involves deploying an extendable pipe robot into ...

Japanese technicians at the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant have sent in remote-controlled robots to one of the damaged reactor buildings as part of preparations to remove radioactive debris. The ...

iRobot’s best known for the robots that clean your living room, not robots that clean crippled nuclear reactors. But they leant a hand to Japan’s infamously infirm power plant for some very, very ...

Last week in the New Mexico desert, military and civilian bomb squads faced off at the 12th annual Robot Rodeo, which is a week of intense training organized by Sandia National Laboratories. To test ...

A robot has, for the first time since the 2011 meltdown, retrieved a piece of radioactive fuel from the tsunami-ravaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The remote-controlled robot, named ...