The Fukushima disaster was the most severe nuclear crisis in 21st century. Despite this, it provided valuable opportunities for human beings to learn and improve robotic technologies in handling mega disasters.
It also showcased the importance of technological coperations between advanced countries to make better robots to survive lethal hazardrous environments.
The missions are still valid for Fukushima's nuclear plants and contaminated zones.
The challengies encountered by the robots deployed in the Fukushima provided insights for countries to learn how to build robots friendly entry and movements in high hazards risks environments in the future as it is very certain that humans will rely on robots to complete many suicidal missions.
In this documentary, several insightful lessons can be drawn for future development of robotic technologies in carrying out dangerous missions.
Durability and resistance of robotic building materials and components in hazardous and hostile environment.
Manuveoulabilty and flexibilty of robots in different tricky and challenging building settings.
Increasing the safety distance between human robot pilots and the actual disastrous zones for reduction of human exposures to harmful environments.
Reducing the risks that robots are 'killed' in the sucidal missions (therefore reducing the costs of resending replacement robots).
Development of more powerful and effective rescue robots to retrieve the lost robots in the hazard zones.
Ideally, increase the plausibility and possibility of recycling the dead robots, even they are contaminated. At the end of the day, in a mega nuclear crisis, there are already MANY wastes created that take geology timescale to be fully degraded. If human beings can reduce more undegradable wastes in the after crisis LONG years of treating the conteminated sites, it helps the planet.
Lessons learnt from Fukushima can be inspirational to future improvements of robotic technologies in other rescue missions, such as earthquakes, landslides, building collapses, floodings, avalanches, vocano eruptions, fires, and wars zone rescues. Each different difficult environments will provide new learning opportunities in continous innovations and improvements.