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Thu Mar-31-11 02:27 PM
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236. Robots have a role to play

Robots have a role to play. Japan has focused on industrial and consumer applications robots. US has focused on research robots for space, military, nuclear and underwater applications. Ironically, Japan has thousands more robots than US.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=robots-arrive-fukushima-nuclear&WT.mc_id=SA_WR_20110330

http://www.asme.org/kb/news---articles/articles/global-impact/rescue-robots-aid-japanese-recovery

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/29/japan-nuclear-plant-us-robots

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