# Public tenders Canonical results: https://zephior.com/tenders?categories=software-and-robotics-development 1 matching notices. Page 1. Filter semantics: OR within a filter, AND across filters and text search. Omitted statuses use active defaults; [] includes all statuses. --- title: "Non-planar surface characterisation and swabbing using the Spot robot" canonical: "https://zephior.com/tenders/c89f9127-0752-45d3-9576-1dd1eb297e2c/spot-robot-surface-characterisation-swabbing" last-updated: 2026-10-13T09:38:07.811382+00:00 --- # Non-planar surface characterisation and swabbing using the Spot robot The UK Atomic Energy Authority invites tenders for designing, developing, demonstrating and delivering the Spot software suite for non-planar surface characterisation and swabbing. The stated work includes testing, verification and documentation. This is an open procedure for services, with a submission deadline of 29 October 2026 at 12:00 UTC. 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