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by rbanffy 3310 days ago
The difficulty here is that radiation fries the brains of the robots, not that they aren't smart enough to work with the stuff. I was a bit shocked the robots people send to observe Fukushima die in minutes of exposure.

It's not something making smaller and faster transistors can solve.

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Have they tried rewriting it in Rust?
There must be ways to make them more resistant. Ways that we haven't tried or that we haven't thought of. That's where more intelligence comes in.