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Robots Compete In Navigating Simulation Of Japan's Fukushima Daiichi Plant

Posted by samzenpus on from the finding-the-path dept.

schwit1 writes: A new DARPA Robotics Challenge completed its final competition recently. 25 teams operated robots around a landscape designed to simulate the hazardous environment that aid workers found after the Fukushima Daiichi reactor in Japan melted down multiple times in 2011. Engineers tried to help, but disaster ensued, rendering a huge area around the plant uninhabitable after toxic steam was released into the skies. The radioactive leftovers are still emitting a million watts of heat. First prize is $2m, second prize is $1m, and third gets $500,000.

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  1. Or we could just deal with the problem cheaply by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Send the most worthless and despicable members of society into deal with the problem.

    Politicians, lawyers, CEOs, Priests, Psychiatrists, priests, and the like.

     

  2. Watch out when we invent artificial intelligence by jfdavis668 · · Score: 4, Funny

    You know things like cleaning up nuclear power plants is the first thing we will use it for. No wonder robots rebel in science fiction movies.