"smaller camera-mounted robot"
It would make more sense to mount the camera on the robot, surely?
Boffins at Japanese electronics giant Toshiba have unveiled a new four-legged robotic invention designed to root around in areas too dangerous for humans, such as Tokyo Electric Power’s stricken Fukushima No.1 nuclear plant. The 65kg machine stands at just over one metre tall and has capacity for carrying another 20kgs. It’s …
They'd last about 20-30 minutes in the higher radiation environments, which is about how long it takes you to use up your store of neurotransmitters once you've lost the ability to synthesise more due to nucleic acid damage and damage to transcription enzymes, endoplasmic reticulum etc. The nervous system is, like a robot's CPU, the weak spot.