11/22/2012

Japan’s new nuclear disaster robot is a disaster

In a disastrous debut, Japan Inc’s newest AT-AT Walker (Wiki) fails spectacularly.

Toshiba Shows Four-Legged Robot for Nuke Disaster
ABC News | by Yuri Kageyyama AP Business Writer
Nov. 21, 2012 (AP) YOKOHAMA–Toshiba Corp. unveiled a robot Wednesday that the company says can withstand high radiation and help…[at] Japan’s crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant.
The four-legged robot can climb over debris and venture into radiated areas off-limits to humans…But the machine, which looks like an ice cooler on wobbly metal legs, also appears prone to glitches. The robot took a jerky misstep during a demonstration to reporters, freezing with one leg up in the air. It had to be lifted by several people and rebooted.…more...

Previous 3Yen reports of Japan’s robotic failures at the time of its greatest need include:
   • More Japanese robot wankering (3Yen / 2012-09-28)
   • Japanese robot ‘misuse’ (3Yen / 2012-02-19)
   • Japanese Fembot Bar (3Yen / 2012-07-28)
   • Japan’s govn’t to build fun Gundams! (3Yen / 2012-06-27)

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8 Responses to “Japan’s new nuclear disaster robot is a disaster”

1. sexbot Says:
   November 22nd, 2012 at 6:02 pm

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2. Coligny Says:
   November 22nd, 2012 at 6:04 pm

   Are they actively trying to fuck up ?

   1 meter tall
   narrow
   fragile
   heavy mass on top.

   The rover seems to use standard RC car wheels on a chassis without ground clearance.

   And it seems to have frozen on stage
   http://enenews.com/new-nuclear-proof-ro … away-photo

   Video of the disaster here.
   http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/20121121_32.html

   Hints for the japanese clowns:
   When you want to make robots that can move or survive in harsh/bumpy environement, you do like NASA for their rover or the standar disasters intervention robots, wheels or tracks, low center of gravity, everything done to avoid roll overs…

   Oh… and I thought robots where not needed… http://www.smartplanet.fr/smart-technology/accident-nucleaire-les-robots-francais-recales-au-japon-1438/

   French Groupe Intra robots and mobile hardened shelter. that were ready to board an Antonov 225 in March 2011 but refused by japan as being ‘inadapted’ (to the country of 4 seasons I suppose):

   http://www.groupe-intra.com/pages2/intervention/moyens2.htm
   http://www.groupe-intra.com/pages2/intervention/moyens3.htm
   http://www.groupe-intra.com/pages2/intervention/moyens4.htm
   http://www.groupe-intra.com/pages2/intervention/moyens5.htm

3. SDH Says:
   November 22nd, 2012 at 6:06 pm

   Coligny wrote:
   1 meter tall
   narrow
   fragile
   heavy mass on top.

   For a second there, I thought you were talking about Sarkozy again….

4. Sarah Connor Says:
   November 22nd, 2012 at 6:45 pm

   When the poor robot was told it was going to Fukushima, I am shocked it didn’t make a run for the door setting new speed record for 4-legged ambulation!

5. Coligny Says:
   November 22nd, 2012 at 8:48 pm

   And what a proper stair climbing door opening robot should look like:

   
   EOLE (Robotised Device for Observation and Localization in the Environment)
   Manufacturer : REMOTEC (USA) Model: ANDROS Mark 5

   Really, they wont be able to claim they didn’t deserve it when entire city populations start shitting blood…

6. John A. Zoidberg Says:
   November 25th, 2012 at 5:55 pm

   Look at legs of the copycat Toshiba bot that failed. The Japabot looks like a crap copy of the USA’s BIG DOG.
   _______
   

   Just let BIG DOG get irradiated and become sentient. I await my real American-made machine overlords.
   BIG DOG! BIG DOG! BIG DOG!
   http://www.bostondynamics.com/robot_bigdog.htm
   http://youtu.be/Vu2IXk5Jbag

7. Taro 3Yen Says:
   March 7th, 2013 at 1:01 am

   Big update–Nothing has improved…

   Japan’s [robots are M.I.A. in the] “Long War” to shut down Fukushima
   Reuters | Mar. 5, 2013
   …Just months after the Quince robot was deployed to inspect Japan’s tsunami-devastated Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, the $6 million Japanese robot got trapped in its dark and winding pathways.
   Seventeen months later, the high-tech soldier-bot is still missing in action — a symbol of a daunting decommissioning project that will take decades, require huge injections of human and financial capital and rely on yet-to-be developed technologies.
   “It’s like going to war with bamboo sticks,” said Takuya Hattori, president of the Japan Atomic Industrial Forum and a 36-year veteran of Fukushima plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co, known as Tepco.
   More…
   
   

8. Coligny Says:
   March 7th, 2013 at 8:21 am

   “It’s like going to war with bamboo sticks,” said Takuya Hattori, president of the Japan Atomic Industrial Forum and a 36-year veteran of Fukushima plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co, known as Tepco.

   So they are going to reactivate the training program for highschoolers to shoot down bombers with bamboo spears ?
   again ?
   sumthing sumthing, learn from history, sumthing sumthing, makez mistakez again…

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