![]() Robin Murphy, director of the Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue (CRASAR) at Texas A&M University, in College Station, and one of the world’s top experts in rescue robotics, confirms that a team led by Satoshi Tadokoro of Tohoku University, in Sendai, and a team led by Eiji Koyanagi from Chiba Institute of Technology’s Future Robotics Technology Center, have deployed, or are about to deploy, their robots. (There is no information about the presence of robots at Japan’s troubled Fukushima nuclear power plants, though that would be an ideal application for teleoperated repair and inspection robots.)ĭr. ![]() I’m waiting confirmation about a third team, also in Tokyo. ![]() Japan’s leading experts in rescue robotics are deploying wheeled and snake-like robots to assist emergency responders in the search for survivors of the devastating earthquake and tsunami that struck the country last Friday.ĭetails are still scarce, but I’ve gotten word that at least two teams plan to use their search and rescue robots, one team in Tokyo and another in or around Sendai, the city that suffered the most damage in the 8.9 magnitude earthquake and ensuing tsunami. ![]() Japan’s earthquake will be a major test for search-and-rescue robots like Quince, developed by Chiba Institute of Technology roboticists, shown here during a demonstration. Editor’s Note: This is part of our ongoing news coverage of Japan’s earthquake and nuclear emergency.
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