2011年4月19日星期二

The Lede: Cousins of Roomba Deployed in Japan

在 ServiceModel 客户端配置部分中,找不到引用协定“TranslatorService.LanguageService”的默认终结点元素。这可能是因为未找到应用程序的配置文件,或者是因为客户端元素中找不到与此协定匹配的终结点元素。
在 ServiceModel 客户端配置部分中,找不到引用协定“TranslatorService.LanguageService”的默认终结点元素。这可能是因为未找到应用程序的配置文件,或者是因为客户端元素中找不到与此协定匹配的终结点元素。
A video report on the use of robots and drones at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan.

As The Associated Press explains, the PackBot robots sent in to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant to measure radiation levels there were made by an American company, iRobot, which also makes the Roomba, a robot vacuum cleaner.

Last month, Tim Trainer, a vice president at iRobot, told NPR that his company’s robots were developed to tackle “dull, dirty and dangerous missions,” which includes everything from cleaning gutters to looking for improvised explosive devices.

The iRobot Web site has several promotional videos showing the PackBot being put through its paces in the field. The robot also features in this YouTube skit, which might not have succeeded in getting the PackBot a any offers from Hollywood, but does give a sense of how it works:

More commonly used for dangerous tasks like bomb disposal or measuring radiation levels, Packbot robots have also dabbled in comic acting.

As Martyn Williams, a technology journalist based in Tokyo, has reported, the Packbots are just one of several remote-controlled devices being used to clear debris and survey the crippled plant.

On his blog, Mr. Williams has also posted some recent video of the ruined upper levels of the reactor buildings, shot in the past week by T-Hawk drone helicopters.

Readers interested in seeing more of those images can visit the press page of the Tokyo Electric Power Company’s Web site, where many of the photographs and video clips of the reactor buildings shot recently by the robots and drone helicopters can be downloaded.

This video, for instance, shows a water sample being taken from the pool that holds spent fuel rods in the No. 4 reactor building last week:


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