I suspect there is possibly an emergency need for long-distance-
controlled heavy robots. An alternative might be running fiber and
power cables into the sites, from a safe distance, to support high
speed local radio based LAN controlled robots for clean-up.
If I owned a robot company that produced such, or could quickly hack
such, I'd be packing the crates now.
The before and after pictures of coastal towns were shocking, and
deeply saddening. A good place to donate might be the American Red
Cross:
http://www.redcross.org/
or the Japanese Red Cross, which for understandable reasons has a
slow to respond web site at the moment, and appears to not be updated
for the current disaster:
http://www.jrc.or.jp/english/
Best regards,
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
