US Robots Penetrate Fukushima Power Plant

A Massachusetts company that manufactures robots for U.S. military bomb disposal units in Iraq and Afghanistan has sent four of its top-technology robots to Japan,"i robot ",  to venture into radiation-exposed areas where it's too dangerous for humans to go. The robots  take measurements and record real-time color video, then transmit it back to engineers in the safety zone.


According to the data gathered, the plant is still in high-level of radioactive material and is still not safe for the humans to enter the power plant.The Fukushima Dai-ichi plant's cooling system failed after a massive 9.0-magnitude earthquake on March 11 and the subsequent tsunami. Since then, radiation has been leaking from the facility, 140 miles north of Tokyo. Two workers suffered injuries today when their feet came into contact with radioactive elements while they were trying to lay new electricity cables in part of the plant, a nuclear safety spokesman told The Associated Press. More than two dozen workers have been injured in nearly two weeks of explosions, fires and radiation emissions there.



The iRobot 710 Warrior is one of four U.S.-made robots sent to assist Japanese engineers at the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear 

plant.

Today, robots are sent to military operations to minimize human injury and fatality as well in dangerous places i.e. nuclear power plant operations, terrestrial operations,and medical surgery.