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It turns out robots are useless when they encounter radiation too.
by sickbeard 10y ago
It turns out robots are useless when they encounter radiation too.
- jcranmer 10y agoWell, more specifically, it turns out that Japan's robotics industry isn't well-suited to disaster recovery robots, and Japan was too proud to accept offers from foreign robotics companies that did have more suited robots ("we're a rich country, we shouldn't need help from anybody else").
- sickbeard 10y agoWhere are you getting this from? Robots built by Toshiba have been able to remove some 1500 spent fuel rods from reactor 4 where the radiation is lower. Reactor 3 has so much radiation I don't think any robot can work there without getting fried.