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Robots Enter Fukushima Reactors, Detect High Radiation
- RyanMcGreal 16y agoWill the radiation pose challenges to the electronic equipment on the robots?
- anigbrowl 16y agoThat comment should not be downvoted. Unshielded electronics have problems with high radiation, because gamma particles are apt to corrupt memory. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_hardening http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_hardening
- shareme 16y agoI imagine its he same design constraints as designing military aircraft electronics to survive Nuke EMF or even spacecraft electronics..using different layered materials to act as barriers to gamma, alpha and beta particles..
- sliverstorm 16y agoShielding is useful, but there's a lot of other things you can do as well.
- spitfire 16y agoIf they're very smart the "robots" won't have any electronics in them at all. They'll have a few wires running to motors, and a very long tether. The sensors may die, but the robots will survive. KISS. The electronics in the robots at chernobyl failed too. So they moved to "human robots".
- radu_floricica 16y agoI wonder how the electronics in the control systems of the plant hold up to a major leak.
- jorleif 16y agoAm I the only one surprised that they are using robots from an American company? I would have thought that this is the kind of opportunity that Sony, Honda and the like would jump on immediately. Or is it really only iRobot who has something that is appropriate for this kind of situation?
- oomkiller 16y agoiRobot has things deployed in the military, which may already be radiation shielded. I'm not sure if any of Japan's robots are.