Tech news 5/16

 The push to plug the plumbing problem from hell at Fukushima Daiichi is about to get some help from a U.S.-built robot designed to search for leaks from one of the Japanese nuclear plant's crippled reactors. Built in Colorado by California-based nuclear cleanup contractor kurion the refrigerator-sized robot will stick a 15- foot mechanical arm through a hole in the main floor of the reactor building.