iRobots enter Japan's tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant for reconnaissance

Remote controlled Robots are our new Saviors! Where men would not dare to tread,metallic super-beings will brave the danger to lift us out of danger. What we have seen in movies might be just turning out true. In Japan, the country of the rising sun, and also the country of walking robots, this seems to coming to reality.

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Two remote controlled robots entered the devastated Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on Sunday the 17th of April. First to enter the nuclear plant after the recent Tsunamii disaster, the iRobot Packbots are expected to gather as-is data.

It is a well-known fact that a destroyed nuclear plant will have tons of radioactivity in the air. It is impossible to risk human beings to go to such an area. Even if it was in voluntary interest.

On Sunday, the iRobot pair entered number 3 reactor building. Equipped with the latest radiations sensors and temperature sensors, and even a video camera, the robots gave vital photographic and environmental data to plant operators - Tokyo Electric Power.

The robots were competent enough to open the reactor building before entering. The photos of these acts were given to the media by Tokyo Electric Power. But they still haven't made public what the robots found inside the reactor building.

Tokyo Electric Power is hoping that this robotic mission is a success. For the same robotic exodus will be effected at the other reactor buildings on the premises of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

The plant owners have had a harrowing time reigning in the nuclear power plant. Radioactive leak is not just a national issue, but a global one. Japan has already faced the wrath of radioactivity post the Hiroshima bombings, and now it does not want history to be repeated again.

The iRobots could soon be heroes. Thousands of them are now in the act to perform hazardous activities. Surely,one must say, Japan's investments in robotics are finally paying off.

Via: CIO