From: mikkelhaaheim@gmail.com   
      
   Thomas,   
   Do you mean something like the robots used by the nuclear industry to inspect,   
   repair, and decommision nuclear reactors? Or perhaps the newer generation   
   being developed to clean up and decommision damaged facilities such as at   
   Fukushima, where the site    
   is littered with debris left over from the tsunami? Already they are   
   surpassing human abilities, doing what humans can not. Their current   
   limitation is that the debris fields and radiation are almost as dangerous for   
   them as for humans.   
   Once again, the reason that they are not used in industry is that it costs   
   much less to have humans do the work. It has nothing to do with technical   
   limitations.   
      
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