Japan mulls new robot help with nuclear disaster

Japan mulls new robot help with nuclear disaster
Tokyo (AFP) May 3, 2011 - Japan may be at the forefront of robotics and its children raised on cartoons of robot heroes and villains, but the country has so far had to rely on US-made machines for help tackling its nuclear crisis. The massive March 11 earthquake and tsunami knocked out reactor cooling systems at the Fukushima nuclear power plant northeast of Tokyo, where workers are battling to prevent radiation leak ... more