New 'Transformer' Robot Changes Shape To Access Deadly Fukushima Nuclear Facilities

HITACHI, JAPAN - FEBRUARY 05: The new shape-changing robot developed by the International Research Institute for Nuclear Decommissioning is put through tests on February 5, 2015 in Hitachi, Ibaraki, Japan. The new device is demonstrated at a plant owned by Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy Ltd., one of the firms involved in its development. The International Research Institute for Nuclear Decommissioning, an organization made up of electric power companies and nuclear power plant manufacturers, developed it with a government subsidy. The probe was conceived as a way to examine the containment vessels, which are too radioactive for humans to enter. It is scheduled for deployment at the No. 1 reactor building of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, which contains melted fuel, this spring. The tubular-shaped robot, measuring 60 centimeters long in its normal state, can transform itself depending on the space it is trying to enter and the task to perform. (Photo by The Asahi Shimbunvia Getty Images)
HITACHI, JAPAN - FEBRUARY 05: The new shape-changing robot developed by the International Research Institute for Nuclear Decommissioning is put through tests on February 5, 2015 in Hitachi, Ibaraki, Japan. The new device is demonstrated at a plant owned by Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy Ltd., one of the firms involved in its development. The International Research Institute for Nuclear Decommissioning, an organization made up of electric power companies and nuclear power plant manufacturers, developed it with a government subsidy. The probe was conceived as a way to examine the containment vessels, which are too radioactive for humans to enter. It is scheduled for deployment at the No. 1 reactor building of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, which contains melted fuel, this spring. The tubular-shaped robot, measuring 60 centimeters long in its normal state, can transform itself depending on the space it is trying to enter and the task to perform. (Photo by The Asahi Shimbunvia Getty Images)
New 'Transformer' Robot Changes Shape To Access Deadly Fukushima Nuclear Facilities
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