Japanese use industrial iRobot to collect radioactive dust from Fukushima

Immediately after the Fukushima accident, many observers had a question - why the Japanese do not use robots for reconnaissance and liquidation of the consequences of the accident (is this a fashionable phrase, right?) After all, it was the Japanese who almost every day demonstrated (and still demonstrate) robots of various purposes. Some dance, some play the violin, others help the sick or explore the rubble. But the trouble is - in Fukushima, in general, no robots were noticeable, only people.

But after a while robots began to appear. At first, there were reconnaissance robots, several at once, and now here’s a robot vacuum cleaner. Moreover, from the same company, whose vacuum cleaners buzz cheerfully at some of us. Yes, I’m talking about iRobot, and I'm still not going to write a review of the washing robot for Habr. By the way, will you be interested in such a review? So far, no one has described washing models, and I have been running this for about a year ...

So, iRobot put at the disposal of the Fukushima administration an industrial robotic vacuum cleaner of high power. I understand that this robot collects radioactive dust, it is unlikely that he could do anything else. Tokyo Electric Power Co. is responsible for the collection of radioactive dust. (TEPCO). Representatives of this company reported that the robot is controlled remotely.

You can watch the work of the robot here (though the video is not very high quality):



Via spectrum ieee