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Minoru Saba (minorusaba@toad.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Sep-2024 08:53:34 JST Minoru Saba

The Robot Assault On Fukushima (WIRED, 26 Apr 2018)
https://www.wired.com/story/fukushima-robot-cleanup/
"Fukushima became both a market and a proving ground for ever-advancing robot technologies designed to operate in hazardous conditions"
🔸Putting it bluntly, Fukushima became a govt-backed playground for all kinds of zany ideas for robots
#Japan #NuclearDecommissioning #failure #robots
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1. Photo of a small, box-shaped robot with caterpillar treads situated where wheels would be on a car. The robot is being tested on the floor of a mock-up of the interior of a nuclear power plant. There are taped markings on the beige-coloured floor probably acting as position markers. Behind the robot in the centre of the frame is a steel flight of stairs leading to a landing and another flight of stairs ascending to another landing to the right of the photo frame. In the background can be seen what appears to be the back wall of the hangar-like interior of the building with a walkway with guardrails crossing left to right about 5 meters above the floor. A worker wearing overalls and a white helmet stands to the left of the frame gazing down on the robot. Caption: "A robot undergoes testing at the government's new $100 million R&D center near the nuclear plant." Photo attribution: SPENCER LOWELL Source: https://www.wired.com/story/fukushima-robot-cleanup/
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  No Job for Humans: The Robot Assault on Fukushima
  
  from Vince Beiser
  
  The 2011 earthquake and tsunami triggered a devastating catastrophe in one of Japan's largest nuclear power plants—and the cleanup will take decades.

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