Decades-old US silos holding Minuteman III missiles that have been a key nuclear deterrent since the 1970s will be assessed by robots that can crawl straight up walls
Technology
12 December 2022
A TOKA robot from Gecko Robotics ascending a sheer wall in a US missile silo Gecko Robotics
Robots are going to be employed to crawl over nuclear missile silos in the US, automating maintenance that has previously been done manually.
Some 400 steel and concrete silos housing Minuteman III intercontinental missiles are spread across Wyoming, Montana and North Dakota. Constructed in the early 1960s for an earlier generation of missiles, the silos were designed to withstand megaton-level nuclear strikes. Each is 30 metres deep and 5 metres across, with a missile inside.
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