DocumentCode :
747212
Title :
Rosie: a worker for the nuclear age
Author :
Charles, J.
Author_Institution :
Virginia Univ., USA
Volume :
11
Issue :
1
fYear :
1996
fDate :
2/1/1996 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage :
82
Lastpage :
83
Abstract :
Designed to decontaminate and dismantle aging nuclear facilities, Rosie is a construction-grade, remotely-operated worksystem capable of tearing a building down from the inside out. At the time of the Chernobyl accident, Soviet officials contacted researchers at Carnegie Mellon University about Rosie´s grandmother, the Workhorse, a multipurpose, remote worksystem for the Three-Mile Island nuclear power plant. Although the system wasn´t ready for release, the Chernobyl incident inspired a group of CMU researchers to form RedZone Robotics, a company that develops remote technology for hazardous environments. Now, almost a decade later, RedZone has released the Workhorse´s progeny for its commercial debut
Keywords :
fission reactor decommissioning; fission reactors; mobile robots; nuclear engineering computing; radiation decontamination; telerobotics; Chernobyl accident; RedZone Robotics; Rosie; construction-grade remotely-operated worksystem; decommissioning; dismantling; remote technology; Accidents; Aging; Buildings; Contamination; Inductors; Manufacturing; Power generation; Robots; Testing; Wheels;
fLanguage :
English
Journal_Title :
IEEE Expert
Publisher :
ieee
ISSN :
0885-9000
Type :
jour
DOI :
10.1109/64.482962
Filename :
482962
Link To Document :
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