Abstract
This paper studies the feasibility of emergency response humanoid robots. The 2011 Tohoku Earthquake was the most powerful earthquake ever measured in Japan. It is also referred to as the Great East Japan Earthquake and happened on March 11, 2011. Following the earthquake, several tsunami hit the Pacific coast of eastern Japan and damaged the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Some robots are deployed for emergency response, but there are several tasks that are hard for them to execute. The possibility of a humanoid robot that can assist in emergency recovery is discussed in this paper. Some mechanisms of the HRP series humanoid robots are also introduced.
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