During the execution of Horizon 2020 project ROCSAFE, IBATECH has visited together with the consortium a recent CBRN exercise by the Defence Forces in Ireland. DFI are part of our consortium as end users of the systems under development. Among other objectives, IBATECH, as part of its role of responsble for final integration and validation, could witness and assess how ROCSAFE robotic system could improve present practices in this kind of incidents in a remote and safe manner for the participants.

Links to media coverage:

http://www.thejournal.ie/dirty-bomb-defence-forces-3980549-Apr2018/

https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/drones-save-lives-terrorist-dirty-12433415

https://www.dublinlive.ie/news/dublin-news/terrorist-dirty-bomb-attack-dublin-14581449