If you had to describe a nuclear facility, the first thing that would come mind is constrained, space-constrained, radiologicaly-constrained, temperature-constrained, etc.

In quite a few situations - if not most of the time -, space-constraints must be dealt with. Either for sampling such as retrieving a piece of equipment for analysis or even to retrieve foreign materials.

Instead of looking for a contortionist in your team - and hoping he wouldn’t be exposed too long to radiations -, most of the time, the most practical way is to use remote grippers. You can find them pretty much everywhere, it is just made of metal and can withstand radiation.

But is it really practical? Not really sure. If you want to grab decently sized objects that are not fragile, it does the job. But what about small debris that can break with the gripper’s pressure? Or tiny rounded objects such as screws? It is not really convenient, you would agree. It would be like trying to grab that teddy bear your daughter has been wanting for the past 10 minutes from a claw machine in a fair.

At inTechBrew, we got you covered - not for the teddy bear situation though - but for retrieving foreign materials / perform sampling in space-constrained environment.