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Refrigerator-Like Robot Called On To Clean Up Fukushima, Japan
Kurion, a technology company out of California was recently called upon by Fukushima, Japan in order to build the “first-ever external water-cooling system for a nuclear reactor.
With Kurion’s tagline being isolating waste from the environment, the company seems like a perfect fit for the job but according to Kurion’s Marc Rood, the project requires building a robot that looks like “a large refrigerator” so it’s not simple by any means.
Rood, Kurion’s director of business development and his team were able to create the robotic refrigerator-like beast with these features…
- Powerful arm, with 7 degrees of freedom
- Can reach 14 feet horizontally
- Can reach 16 feet vertically
- Installed sensors capable of identifying cracks in the reactor
- “Rad-hardened” arm
What is a “rad-hardened” robotic arm?
According to Rood, “All components will be able to withstand radiation for enough of a duration that nothing will be affected. The only electrical portions of systems are the camera and gripper at the end of the arm.”
Arm searching for cracks:
Kurion
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