{"id":9739,"date":"2013-05-27T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-27T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.expo21xx.com\/news\/?p=9739"},"modified":"2013-05-24T16:01:34","modified_gmt":"2013-05-24T14:01:34","slug":"combining-robots-lasers-safe-cost-efficient-tools-hazard-confined-spaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.expo21xx.com\/news\/combining-robots-lasers-safe-cost-efficient-tools-hazard-confined-spaces\/","title":{"rendered":"LaserSnake2 &#8211; Combining robots and lasers to create safe, cost efficient tools for high hazard confined spaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The LaserSnake2 project is an \u00a38m collaborative R&amp;D project led by OC Robotics that will run from 2013 to 2016. The Technology Strategy Board, together with the Department for Energy and Climate Change, and the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, is providing a grant of around \u00a35.7 million to the project consortium. The primary objectives are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The development of long reach snake-arm robots for hazardous and confined spaces, both in air and under water.<\/li>\n<li>The combination of snake-arms and mobile robots to create a mobile platform for exploration of complex spaces.<\/li>\n<li>The development of laser cutting optics for safe, remote cutting in air and in water, particularly focused on nuclear decommissioning.<\/li>\n<li>Consideration of the regulatory and certification issues associated with tele-operated delivery of laser cutting solutions for the nuclear sector.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9740\" alt=\"laser-snake Combining robots and lasers\" src=\"http:\/\/www.expo21xx.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/laser-snake.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.expo21xx.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/laser-snake.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.expo21xx.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/laser-snake-149x86.jpg 149w, https:\/\/www.expo21xx.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/laser-snake-350x203.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The technology has huge potential outside of the nuclear sector &#8211; for instance, inspection and maintenance of high value assets in the oil &amp; gas and construction sectors, and working within confined spaces such as aircraft wings for assembly and maintenance. For this reason the research will focus on the underlying technical challenges including software control, electronics, process development, and mechanism design. The project will conclude with onsite demonstrations.<\/p>\n<p>The success of the project will be measured both in terms of progress made towards developing a tool kit for the nuclear sector, and also the exploration of non-nuclear markets.<\/p>\n<p>Visit\u00a0<a title=\"OC Robotics website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.expo21xx.com\/link\/redirector.php?url=http:\/\/www.ocrobotics.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.ocrobotics.com<\/a> for further information<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0Vk9tBaex0U\" height=\"388\" width=\"690\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The LaserSnake2 project is an \u00a38m collaborative R&amp;D project led by OC Robotics that will run from 2013 to 2016. The Technology Strategy Board, together with the Department for Energy and Climate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":9741,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[12,11],"class_list":["post-9739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-automation-robotics","tag-industrial-robots","tag-laser-welding"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.8.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>LaserSnake2 &#8211; Combining robots and lasers to create safe, cost efficient tools for high hazard confined spaces - EXPO21XX.com NEWS<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.expo21xx.com\/news\/combining-robots-lasers-safe-cost-efficient-tools-hazard-confined-spaces\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Patrik Wolters\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.expo21xx.com\/news\/combining-robots-lasers-safe-cost-efficient-tools-hazard-confined-spaces\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.expo21xx.com\/news\/combining-robots-lasers-safe-cost-efficient-tools-hazard-confined-spaces\/\",\"name\":\"LaserSnake2 &#8211; 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