Yes, I don't doubt special robots can and will be developed. But I think the normal ones can't be used since they don't have the shielding and adding it would h

Yes, I don't doubt special robots can and will be developed. But I think the normal ones can't be used since they don't have the shielding and adding it would hamper their function. Also radiation has different ways of damaging people vs electronics. Memory chip gets hit by radiation and immediately returns random values which can cause program to crash. Human doesn't feel much - even Slotin who had a criticality accident and died a few days later, at the moment felt just a metal taste in his mouth. He would still be able to close valves and so on.