Images Released of the Tsunami Striking Fukushima

A remote-controlled robot called
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The Other Side
One of the robots makes its way through a door at the plant on April 17, 2011. The robots were manufactured by the iRobot company — the Massachusetts-based creators of the Roomba vacuum cleaner.

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