[Edaily Reporter Hyera Lee ] T-Robotics co., Ltd.(117730), a company specializing in vacuum robots and autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), announced on the 8th that it is participating in a pilot project to automate a domestic radioactive waste disposal facility, marking its entry into the high-risk industrial robotics market.

T-Robotics co., Ltd. was selected as part of a consortium comprising the Gyeongbuk ICT Convergence Industry Promotion Association (GBICT), the Korea Radioactive Waste Management Corporation (KORAD), and CLOBOT Co., Ltd. for the “2026 Large-Scale Convergence Robot Demonstration Project for Solving Social Issues,” organized by the Korea Institute for Robot Industry Promotion.
This project, titled “Demonstration of Multi-Robot Operations for the Safe Management of High-Risk Radioactive Waste,” is the first demonstration project in Korea to automate key processes at a radioactive waste disposal facility using robots.
The demonstration will take place at the Korea Radioactive Waste Management Corporation’s radioactive waste disposal facility in Gyeongju, North Gyeongsang Province. The project is divided into safety monitoring and radioactive waste logistics, with T-Robotics co., Ltd. responsible for the radioactive waste logistics process. The plan is to reduce the risk of radiation exposure and enhance workplace safety and operational efficiency by applying various robots to processes previously performed by human workers, such as monitoring, patrolling, waste transport, loading, and sorting.
T-Robotics co., Ltd. will supply automated logistics solutions for heavy radioactive waste using unmanned forklifts, AMRs, and palletizing robots. The company will establish an integrated logistics automation system spanning from the warehouse to the worksite: unmanned forklifts load drums of radioactive waste onto AMRs, which then transport them to the disposal site, where palletizing robots perform the final disposal operations.
T-Robotics co., Ltd. explained that this project is significant in that it expands the scope of industrial robot applications from general manufacturing plants to high-risk industrial sites where human access is difficult.
T-Robotics co., Ltd. stated, “Radioactive waste disposal facilities are environments that demand the highest levels of safety and reliability among all industrial sites,” adding, “We will expand the application of robots beyond manufacturing into various high-value-added industries, such as nuclear power, energy, and critical national infrastructure, to create new growth opportunities.”