Meet Spot, the robot dog that is helping map radiation

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"This is a breakthrough in radiological technology. We are not just using nuclear physics, but also robotics, computer vision, software, and other elements that enable societal benefits," said Ren Cooper, deputy head of the Applied Nuclear Physics program at the Berkeley Lab. The robotic dog can also perform autonomous tasks, such as finding hotspots or boundaries of radiation areas, by learning what objects are and how to react to them. This is done through a process in computer vision known as "semantic segmentation.", for example, if there was a radioactive source behind a wall, a semantically ignorant dog would say that the wall was radioactive. A semanticallywould say that it wanted to see what was behind the wall.

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