Husqvarna demolition robots to help clean up Fukushima
The DXR-310 is just 31-inches wide, is capable of climbing stairs, has a telescopic boom reach of 216 inches, and has been provided with a video camera and transmission equipment to extend its range and allow remote operation from a safe distance
Article Summary
Sweden's Husqvarna Construction has announced that two of its remote-controlled demolition robots are to help with the massive clean-up operation at the site of the failed fourth reactor at the Fukushima nuclear power plant. The recently-featured DXR-140 and its bigger brother - the DXR-310 - will be used in heavy demolition work such as tearing down concrete constructions and dealing with contaminated materials.
« Back to Husqvarna demolition robots to help clean up Fukushima
Related Articles
-
Husqvarna's Bluetooth-controlled DXR 140 demolition robot
26th April, 2010
-
Robot designed to sort trash for recycling
18th April, 2011
-
FANUC debuts world's largest, strongest six-axis robot
10th September, 2008
-
U.N. releases World Robotics 2004 survey
21st November, 2004
-
Plasma technology offers clean fuel breakthrough
25th March, 2010
-
Snake-like robots to assist construction work
13th December, 2008
