... in safely removing major structures and cleaning and decontaminating areas of a nuclear processing plant. Findings The paper finds that frequently, robots are the answer but commercially available units may not be the suitable solution so designing custom robotics may be the best answer. Practical...

... in any direction. Figure P2 shows representative configurations achievable with two contiguous bellows. Compliance Decontamination Optical serving Remote actuation Teleoperation Tentacle Human tongues, elephant trunks, octopus legs, and prehensile monkey tails are examples of organic...