Search & rescue robots, the high tech tsunami heroes (earthquake, Sendai, Japan, 2011)

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Japan’s rescue teams were just not enough after the razing tsunami and a massive earthquake brought destruction to many coastline villages. The manned teams can use searchdogs and perform basic first aid operations such as searching for survivors and helping them medically. But what when the survivors are below a big pile of debrids/carriage caused by a collapsed house?

This is where multiple robot-aided teams came to the rescue. The first team was led by Prof. Eiji Koyanagi from Chiba Institute of Technology, the second led by Prof. Fumitoshi Matsuno from Kyoto University, who’s vice president of the International Rescue System Institute. 2 other teams based in Tokyo and Sendai are currently on Standby.

Both professors are highly renowned names in the field of roboticism. They split up into 2 teams to cover as much ground as possible. Their gear consisted out of highly advanced instant-deployable ground and snake-like robots. When needed, the teams are ready to travel anywhere their services are required.

Team 1 led by Prof. Koyanagi is equiped with a robot that can inspect underwater infrastructure. We can not give you many specifics about the robots, nor was the company that produces them mentioned when asked. Team 2 was in charge to help inspect a building with collapsed ceiling. Working together with the Hachinohe Institute of Technology they send in a ground robot called KOHGA3.

More and more robotized units are being mobilized in Japan since they can crawl into places most of the time unreachable to human possibility. Although the primary nature of these robots isn’t what most people would expect, they are mainly used to infiltrate their way into highly damaged buildings to check how they can be repaired or reconstructed. Highly useful for buildings and facilities containing dangerous substances such as chemical plants and certain nuclear areas.

One of the robots used in the rescue is called “Quince”, a part of the NEDO project (Japan’s New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization) who is an all terrain crawler used to access and report back remote areas inhospitable to humans.

You can find a small youtube clip of the KOHGA3 robot in action during a recent exercise in Disaster City. This is a simulation held in Texas where world’s largest training facility for urban search & rescue is located.

Dr Mobiles ask if you are a brave sleeper? See the pictures and you will know why!

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Have a look at these super brave (or crazy?) climbers, their tents to be hung on the cliffs, they sleep and rest at such place! Would you dare to stake your life on it?

   

Superhuman: Walking the tightrope with an elevation of 3303 metres!

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Blog - Twitter - Flickr - SRF Local time on January 29, a Swiss acrobat was walking the tightrope at Corvatsch near St Moritz. From the station of a cable car with an elevation of 3303 meters to another on the mountainside, He covered the distance of 1600 meters.

   

 

This is true: Cat was shot 13 times in the head with a slug gun, walks home!

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An Australian cat named Smokey survived 13 shots to the head from an air rifle and then found his way home after what police on Tuesday called a "shocking" act of animal cruelty.     

A medical examination revealed 13 pellets lodged in his head and face. Sergeant Craig Pearse said it was remarkable Smokey had managed to get home after his ordeal. The nine-year-old moggy turned up on his owners’ doorstep bleeding from his head last week, three days after he went missing from the family home in Maryborough, central Victoria.

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Wang Jia Yun, born in 1993, height 164 cm, weight 42 kg. High school students, now living in Shenzhen, Guangdong.  She represented herself to be born in Kowloon, Hong Kong, currently residing in Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province, China.

           

However, it is said these pictures are edited by Photoshop.

 

http://go.to/drmobiles - Can you believe that “she” is a boy? Strange but true news report!

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17-year-old cross-dressing boy in Taiwan, Peng Yang, Height 177 cm and weight 55 kg，who is eager for being a woman and prefers clothing associated with the female; By great skills of makeup, he has the ability to transform into a stunning "girl". It’s unexpected that he became a professional model after uploading the self shot photos of wearing women’s dress to the web album, at that time he was a student of Senior High School 1st Grade. In fact, I have to admit that I feel a little discomfort to see such pictures and wonder whether to applaud the super skills of makeup or to be shocked by this crazy world.

       

  

Seriously, this a REAL Guinness record – world’s largest boob!

There’re many girls are vexed about their small breast, but the large boob is inconvenient for someone.

Brazilian 29-year-old Hershey set a new world record, her breasts reached 38KKK, setting up a new world record, reaching the world’s largest boob.

Hershey was born in Brazil, currently residing in the United States, she is a singer and dancer, owning her own record company.

I think she may be elected Image Spokesman of NBA.

    

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