{"id":6758,"date":"2013-03-20T18:23:19","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T01:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=6758"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:30:30","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:30:30","slug":"an-upside-to-fukushima-japans-robot-renaissance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/an-upside-to-fukushima-japans-robot-renaissance","title":{"rendered":"An Upside to Fukushima: Japan\u2019s Robot Renaissance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/FUKUSHIMA.MAKES_.JAPAN_.DO_.MORE_.ROBOTS-e1363828301442.jpg\"><\/a><strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"\">Fukushima\u2019s Second Anniversary\u2026<\/span><\/strong><br \/> Two years ago the international robot dorkosphere was stunned when, in the aftermath of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2011_T%C5%8Dhoku_earthquake_and_tsunami\" target=\"_blank\">Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami Disaster<\/a>, there were no domestically produced robots in Japan ready to jump into the death-to-all-mammals radiation contamination situation at the down-melting Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"\"><strong>\u2026and Japan is Hard at Work.<\/strong><\/span><br \/> Suffice it to say, when Japan finds out its robots aren\u2019t good enough \u2014 JAPAN RESPONDS! For more on how Japan has and is addressing the situation, have a jump on over to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.akihabaranews.com\/126794\/robot\/japans-robot-renaissance-fukushimas-silver-lining\" target=\"_blank\"><a href=\"http:\/\/AkihabaraNews.com\">AkihabaraNews.com<\/a><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and here\u2019s some awesome stuff sourced from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.therobotreport.com\/index.php\/site\/TRR-Global-Map\/\" target=\"_blank\">TheRobotReport.com<\/a>:<br \/>\n<a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/an-upside-to-fukushima-japans-robot-renaissance.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"ROBOTS.IN.JAPAN.SM\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/an-upside-to-fukushima-japans-robot-renaissance.jpg\" width=\"336\" height=\"238\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/an-upside-to-fukushima-japans-robot-renaissance.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/> Larger Image<\/a> - <a href=\"http:\/\/anthrobotic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Anthrobotic.com-Japan-Robot-Map.SM_.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">PDF With Links<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/anthrobotic.com\/anthrobotics-amazon\/\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fukushima\u2019s Second Anniversary\u2026 Two years ago the international robot dorkosphere was stunned when, in the aftermath of the Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami Disaster, there were no domestically produced robots in Japan ready to jump into the death-to-all-mammals radiation contamination situation at the down-melting Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. \u2026and Japan is Hard at Work. Suffice [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":231,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,12,873,6],"tags":[1187,1232,1233,1234,780,1235,1190,1191,1236,1194,1195,1237,1200,222,1238],"class_list":["post-6758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-existential-risks","category-nuclear-energy","category-robotics-ai","tag-activelink-power-loader","tag-asia","tag-carebots","tag-cyberdyne","tag-darpa","tag-energy-technology","tag-exoskeleton-tag","tag-hal-suit","tag-industrial-robots","tag-japan--tekk","tag-japan","tag-nuclear-stuff","tag-robot","tag-technology","tag-technology-environmentalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/231"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6758"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70142,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6758\/revisions\/70142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}