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A man wearing a face mask touches a computer screen in a lab with robotic arms in the foreground.

Solving a Robotics Puzzle During a Summer Internship at NIST

January 24, 2022

Steven Salisbury

For nine years, I have been obsessed with the Rubik’s Cube. It is a puzzle that has simultaneously stumped and interested the whole world since it was first invented, something few other puzzles can claim. However, while most people are satisfied after solving the cube once, I wasn’t. I wanted to

multi panel collage of the robocrane, a large three sided pyramid structure of struts and wires holding a platform in the middle. To the right are images of the robocrane welding, joining pipes and cutting an I beam.

Creating and Commercializing the NIST RoboCrane

October 27, 2021

Nicholas G. Dagalakis

The RoboCrane — now hard at work at the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear cleanup sites — is a good example of a successfully commercialized technology invented at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). I’ll try to tell that story in this blog. In the early 1980s, the manufacturing

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