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Toshiba to use scorpion-like robot to enter Fukushima nuclear power plant

Toshiba is deploying a robot that looks like a scorpion to enter the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Japan. This comes amid the ongoing struggle to clean up the power plant following the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in northern Japan that caused a radiation leak and long-term evacuations.