Technology:
Shimizu developed an unmanned exploration robot “Robo Scope” in
alliance with Tohoku University and International Rescue System. The Robo Scope
can advance into wreckage in a destroyed building. The exploration unit that is
an about 70 mm in diameter and 10 m long hose has a camera on its top, and the
operator can operate it by remote control outside the robot as if he operate a
home video game machine.
The
Robo Scope is lifted by a construction crane and put inside through an
opening of a destroyed building. The exploration unit is covered by slanted
cilia, and the self-contained vibration motor creates the propulsion force to the
insertion direction. The demonstration experiment was conducted in a full-scale mockup that
duplicates a destroyed building. The research team plans to add the position
detecting function to the unit for better operability and durability, and put
it into practical application in less than one year.
An unmanned exploration robot developed by Shimizu
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