These Bots May Save Your Life Someday


These Bots May Save Your Life Someday
When Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant was in crisis following the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, a team of human workers entered the site to vent the accumulating hydrogen gas. But as radiation levels grew, they had to turn back. Robots were badly needed to take over where the human workers left off. Instead, the gas continued to build, until the plant exploded.

June 11, 2015 at 11:39AM
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