The Smart Systems Group at the University of Glasgow has released a video showcasing ‘A Symbiotic Autonomous Robot Ecosystem for Sustainable Environments’, or SARESE, which is a pan-institute study into symbiotic autonomy.
The Smart Systems Group seeks to develop solutions and research into future product development, business models and critical infrastructure within extreme environments.
The consortium comprises the University of Glasgow, University of Manchester, University of the West of England and Royal Holloway of London under the banner of an agreed vision and mission.
The video outlines several targets for the symbiotic ecosystem of robots, including the evaluation of symbiotic multi-robot fleets for nuclear decommissioning, which requires human inspections every three to six months.
The university names the Unitree quadruped, the Agile X scout wheeled robot, the Continuous Autonomous Radiometric Monitoring Assistant (CARMA) wheeled robot with the Franka robotic manipulator and the DJI Tello unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) as potential solutions for such a system within a nuclear environment.
It likewise includes footage of trials at a nuclear facility, with human teams and robots performing activities such as debugging and troubleshooting and inspections of potentially radioactive material.
