Decades-old US silos holding Minuteman III missiles that person been a cardinal atomic deterrent since the 1970s volition beryllium assessed by robots that tin crawl consecutive up walls
Technology 12 December 2022A TOKA robot from Gecko Robotics ascending a sheer partition successful a US rocket silo Gecko Robotics
Robots are going to beryllium employed to crawl implicit atomic rocket silos successful the US, automating attraction that has antecedently been done manually.
Some 400 alloy and factual silos lodging Minuteman III intercontinental missiles are dispersed crossed Wyoming, Montana and North Dakota. Constructed successful the aboriginal 1960s for an earlier procreation of missiles, the silos were designed to withstand megaton-level atomic strikes. Each is 30 metres heavy and 5 metres across, with a rocket inside.
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