Going Where No Human Can

Toshiba has created a radiation-sensing, camera-equipped walking robot that can climb stairs and over debris, but not without some glitches. Still, the hope is that it will be able to enter damaged areas that humans can't, for example, in the crippled Fukushima power plant: http://phys.org/news/2012-11-toshiba-four-legged-robot-nuke-disaster.html