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Robot: Snakebot – Robot Intelligence
Baku, Mart 18 (AZERTAC). Earthquake in Japan, the magnitude of which amounted to 8.9 points, has shown how this country was ready for this kind of disaster.
As it turned out, it's not paranoia, but quite adequate training to the force majeure, which has already helped save a huge number of lives. Inventions on the topic of earthquakes, relate not only to protect against them, but rather the work of designers, builders, and for specialists in electronic technologies is much more important to learn to deal with the consequences of destruction.
For example, to create robots that can pass through the narrow gap under the rubble. A robot introduced Japanese engineer Satoshi Tadokoro, its development was called Snakebot.
As the name implies, this robot is designed as a snake. Her body was covered with nylon bristle brushes, these brushes provide rotation movement of the machine. And turns it by means of joints in the front of the machine, there is the camera.
Such a snake can get virtually any debris, and thanks to her rescuers will know exactly what is happening there. Especially because Snakebot length is about 8 meters.