Michael Santo of RealTechNews writes:

Though it sounds like science fiction, Nature is reporting that a robot saved a lab at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico in October.

“Records released this week describe how the base’s Gamma Irradiation Facility was paralysed when a cylinder containing cobalt-60 became lodged in one of the lab’s air-pressure tubes, similar to the document-delivery systems once used in offices. After trying to dislodge the canister by upping the pressure in the tube, the team called in a 270-kilogram bomb-disposal robot from the nearby Sandia National Laboratories.”

[Read Robot Saves New Mexico Lab]

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