Optimus Prime? Nope, just a giant robot doing railway repair in Japan
Authored By manas.joshi
Published: Apr 27, 2022, 04:39 IST | Updated: Apr 27, 2022, 04:39 IST
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The job
The robot was used to carry out maintenance work on out-of-reach railway contact line.
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The brains
The robot has been developed by West Japan Railway Company (JR West) and two other Japanese companies.
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The risk
The overhead wires of railway conduct thousands of volts of electricity. Maintenance work is thus very risky affair for humans.
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The method
According to JR West, the prototype of this robot can be controlled by human operators through VR helmets and remote controls.
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The use
The company says that this robot can cut down labour by human by a third.
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'Proud of you brother'
'Proud of you brother'
No, Optimus Prime never said that in Transformers. At least not to the Japanese robot. Image above shows a man in Optimus Prime suit at a premiere of the movie in 2012.
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