An intersection the author frequently drives through in Tagajo, near Sendai. Photo: City of Tagajo Editor’s note: In this guest post, Japanese roboticist Masaaki Kumagai, an IEEE member, describes the moment when the 9.0 magnitude earthquake hit Japan on March 11 and the two weeks that followed. Dr. Kumagai is an associate professor at Tohoku Gakuin University, in Sendai, a city of 1 million on Japan’s northeast coast and one of the most affected by the quake and ensuing tsunami. This is part of IEEE Spectrum’s ongoing coverage of Japan’s earthquake and nuclear emergency. March 11, Friday — Day 0 It was a cold morning, sometime before noon, and I was preparing our robots for a demonstration scheduled for Sunday at the Sendai Literature Museum. They were having a science fiction exhibit and had asked me to bring some robots for visitors to see. My plan was to take two BallIP robots—machines that self-balance on balls—and a truck-like wheeled robot. I charged their batteries and began to carry the equipment to my car, which I had parked near my laboratory on Tohoku Gakuin University’s Tagajo Campus. At around 2:45 p.m. I had nearly finished loading the car and was walking back… Read full this story
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