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Interesting read - Robots at Fukushima

zoopydogsitzoopydogsit Posts: 174
edited 2012-04-24 07:35 in General Discussion
Nice read. And good on IEEE for capturing the blog and details before they became unavailable.
Lots of great take-aways about durability for robots in the field, and challenges working in human environments (doors, stairs, etc).

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/industrial-robots/fukushima-robot-operator-diaries

Comments

  • ercoerco Posts: 20,259
    edited 2012-01-29 14:47
    XLNT article. Interesting details on iRobot and the blog deletion. TEPCO should seize the opportunity to lead by sharing all pertinent info instead of staging a cover-up.
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,259
    edited 2012-04-23 13:22
    Radiation at Fukushima is still rising over a year later. Modern robots can't even function properly at the current radiation level. Sheesh...
  • ratronicratronic Posts: 1,451
    edited 2012-04-23 16:34
    Way back when I was a kid, I lived in Oceanside,Ca close to the San Onofre Nuclear power plant and they used to scare us about it in school with all the bad stuff that could happen if it were ever to have a problem.
  • jdoleckijdolecki Posts: 726
    edited 2012-04-24 05:51
    Just for a good read

    Here is a 1996 report on the Rad testing of the Cybermotion K3A mobile Robot.

    It isn't cheap even by 1996 cost.

    369682.pdf
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    369682.pdf
    5M
  • lardomlardom Posts: 1,659
    edited 2012-04-24 07:35
    I feel kind of dumb but I thought the 'China syndrome' meant that the reactor would melt down into the earth's core...(and though to the other side!)
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