since then, mount mihara has fallen into a cycle of erupting every 30 years 01’ so.ow. translation: on the day of the eruption, hundreds of crows were perched on the stone pagoda, which was peculiar. i went to the crater late in the afternoon. there was a seismometer placed just above where we are heading to right now. we're on our way now to the summit of mount mihara to check on an instrument that the researchers have here. you can see in the background behind me, some of the smoke coming out of the ground from the active volcano, wnd we're surrounded everywhere by this black basalt, this leftover lava, some of that left over from the 1986 eruption. that eruption started over here and down this hill, towards the town of 10,000 inhabitants. fortunately, it didn't quite make it, but they did have to evacuate. a team are visiting the mountain today to check and repair the sensor stations that they have dotted around the volcano. volcanic rock is just a small magnet so if you heat up a magnet, magnetisation vanishes. then we can detect some change. before the eruption

it isa was inspired the mihara disaster. it is a big beast weighing over 150 kilograms.rrain has caused a bodice is to investigate many kinds of designs. and although robots with wheels or with snakelike bodies can handle tricky terrain, they are not so good when you need to get hands—on. tricky terrain, they are not so good when you need to get hands-on. after we reached the destination the robot has two perform, it has tasks like turning a valve or manipulation of switches or opening doors, things like that. it requires big power.m order to actually manipulate things, it would need additional hands or fingers of some kind. for now, the tea m fingers of some kind. for now, the team are investigating the best way to move. calling it low and slow over the rubble. i notice that it is not just using its over the rubble. i notice that it is notjust using its forelegs it is also using it belly. yes. so all the legs can come off the ground at once. i don't thinki have legs can come off the ground at once. i don't think i have seen that before. yes. this is a new locomotion sty

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