ResearchHealthcare & Hospitals
Quince
Built by Chiba Institute of Technology and Tohoku University
Updated Jun 2026·methodology
Overview
Quince is a remote control mobile robot packed with sensors designed to enter areas that humans shouldn't access, such as buildings after earthquakes and crippled nuclear reactors. It is capable of driving over rubble and climbing stairs, equipped with six cameras, gyroscopes, accelerometers, temperature and humidity sensors, air dust samplers, and laser scanners for disaster response and assessment missions.
Specifications
Category: Research- Payload
- 20 kg
- Reach
- 20,000 mm
- Speed
- 1.6 m/s
- Weight
- 32 kg
- Battery
- 2.5 h
- Autonomy
- teleoperated
- Launch year
- 2011
- Price
- Contact for quote
- Status
- active
Detailed specifications
Compute1
- Ros Compatible
- true
Other14
- Applications
- visual_inspection,surface_inspection,security_patrol
- Sub Category
- rescue robot
- Datasheet Url
- Preview PDF online
- Max Speed M S
- 1.6
- Pricing Model
- purchase
- Model Variants
- EMS1045T,EMS1045TL,EMS1030T,EMS1030TL
- Company Country
- JP
- Deployment Count
- 3
- Deployment Notes
- Deployed at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in 2011-2012 for radiation monitoring, debris clearance, and sample collection in reactor buildings; Quince 1, 2, and 3 used.
- Industries Served
- nuclear,emergency_response
- Availability Status
- research-only
- Countries Available
- Japan
- Extras Contact Emails
- inquiry@sinko.co.jp
- Additional Information
- Quince surveyed the inside of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant whose damages were caused by the East Japan Earthquake on March 11, 2011.,Quince, with modifications for operations at nuclear power plants, has photographed the details of the buildings of the power plant, created radiation dose maps, and sampled radioactive materials floating in the air.,It has been helping to reduce the radiation dose of on-site workers and to shorten the work period.
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