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Vision guides robot into risky areas

April 1, 2013

Engineers at Toshiba Corp. have developed a tetrapod robot that is able to carry out investigative and recovery work in locations that are too risky for people to enter, such as Tokyo Electric Power Plant Fukushima No.1 nuclear power plant. The new robot integrates a camera and dosimeter and can investigate the condition of nuclear power plants under remote control.

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