Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Current Event

1. Topic:
It is about the new exoskeleton first responder suit.

2. Article Title:
Japanese first responders to wear robotic exoskeletons

3. Article Source:
I got the article from Gizmag

4. Summary:
The suit has tungsten shields which reduces radiation exposure by almost 50 percent. There is also a cooling system built into the suit to prevent a heat stroke.The suit also shows vital signs and heart rate in real time. Most of the tools that you have to carry can be put in the exoskeleton legs.

5. Reaction:
I feel that this suit is going to be a great help. It allows people to be around radiation without getting affected by it. Which is a great help to the Japanese in cleaning up the radiation. It doesn't really affect me now but if anything ever happen around here and it caused radiation to leak out. Those suits would be really helpful in cleaning it up.

6. World Impact:
It has a big world impact because the suit allows people to withstand radiation even longer than before. With 435 nuclear power plants world wide if anything would ever happen to them these suits would allow people to clean the radiation up faster. I could also see how these suits would help the military. If the military wasn't for sure if there was any radiation in the area they could put on these suits to check it out. I think every nuclear power plant should have enough suits there for everybody in the building just in case the plant had a leak.

Professor Yoshiyuki Sankai presents the modified HAL exoskeleton during Japan Robot Week 2...
Exoskeleton suit, Oct. 18 2012 I got the article HERE




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