industryterm:robotic technologies

  • Domestic robots failed to ride to rescue after No. 1 plant blew
    http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120106f1.html

    After the March 11 tsunami slammed into the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant and wrecked three reactors, many people expected the nation’s cutting-edge robotic technologies to come to the rescue.

    That, however, turned out to be wishful thinking, and the public was left wondering why Japanese robots, such as Honda Motor Co.’s Asimo humanoid, weren’t sent to the power plant to assist firefighters and workers trying to bring the crippled reactors under control.