Analysis of the Influence of Human Exposure to Risk and ESG as Motivators for the Implementation of Climbing and Mobile Robots

Abstract

© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024.The primary purpose of climber robots is to undertake tasks that may be hazardous for humans working at height and in hard-to-reach spaces. They improve safety as well as enhance task efficiency and decrease labor costs. Climber robots have been extensively used for activities such as bridge inspection, high-rise building cleaning, fruit picking, high-altitude rescue and military reconnaissance. This paper reviews a list of 51 articles published in the field of mobile robotics and climbing robots in the last five years, mainly related to onshore and offshore oil and gas applications. From the generation of this list, a trend analysis has been performed, where the observed result allowed the perception that the reduction of human exposure to risk (HRE), as well as the ESG principles direct and motivate robotic implementations in this area.

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