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make efforts
Efforts are being made to eliminate mines.
~を除去する
The Ottawa Treaty, which aims to end the use of
条約
antipersonnel mines, went into effect in 1999 and
発効する。
has now been signed by more than 150 countries,
Mine-clearing operations are ongoing.
The important question, however, is whether,
governments and NGO's can possibly clear that
many mines. The answer is simple: this work can
never be done without the help of a large number of
people.
Hirose Shigeo thinks he has a way to help.
Japan makes nearly 70 percent of the robots
produced in the world, and Hirose has been
building robots for many years. He has been
helping with the international effort to get
rid of mines using robotics since the early
へを除去する
ロボット工学
1990's. In 1996, he published his first
research paper on mine-removing robots.
poper on(専門) ~に関する
The first robot that Hirose developed
for finding and removing mines was
called Titan IX, a one-meter-long, 90-
centimeter-wide robot. With its four legs,
this robot can walk around on rocks and
sand to find and disarm mines. Hirose is
(地震を安全化する
now developing a snake-type robot which
can go through bushes without putting
茂み
pressure on mines.

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Date
① オタワ条約は、対人地雷の
・live a
使用の終結を目指しているが、
1999年に発効し、
happy
U
life
live Hoppily
いまや150以上の国々によって
署名されている。
• as many
as ~
(~も多くの)
②地雷除去計画は進行中だ。 ☆ aim to
⇒~を目的としている
☑
③
政府やNGOはそんなにも
多くの地質を何とかして
除去できるものなのかどうか
go
go into effect
効力を発揮する
* sign ~/263/316932
署名する。
R
⑨この活動は
決して成し得ない
⑤彼は1990年代の初めから、
ロボット工学を活用して、
地震と除去する国際的な活動を
援助してきた。
* have been ring
⇒いままでずっと
get rid of ~
~1243
→~を廃止する、取り除く

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In 2002, the Japanese government formed a
study group to look into the technology for detecting
~を調査する
~を検知する
and removing mines. The study group was Japan's
part of an international effort to help Afghanistan
[recover from the ravages of war.
へから回復する。
Hirose went to
破壊、荒廃、損害
Afghanistan with this group.
He watched the local people disarming mines-
one by one with simple tools. First they had to
1?\?.
locate the mine. Then they dug around it very
carefully with a knife and cleared dirt/
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from the top. When they could see the
mine, they removed the fuse with their
信償導線、ヒューズ
fingers or blew it up with a detonator.
blow
起暴装置
G-1
Having seen how dangerous this work
was, Hirose thought there must be a way
to do it with his robots.
Hirose explained to the Afghan
people how Titan IX could help them
clear mines. To his surprise, they did not
to ore's 廃帯を表す名詞
think that this robot would work in
Afghanistan. There were a couple of problems.
First of all, it was too expensive. Second, it was
difficult to fix when it broke. Third, and most
ロボットと
地震除去
用いること
↓
最大の懸念
important, the Afghans were afraid that it would ⇒ x (//st
take away their demining jobs.
地震を除去する
時制の一致.
〇時制の一致
TTL

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No.
Date
①この作業がどれほど危険か
ということが分かり、
EDは自分のロボットを
使ってそれをする方法が
必ずあると考えた。
③ 第312、最も重要な問題だが、
アフガニスタンの人々は彼らの
地雷除去の仕草をそれが
奪うのではないかと恐れてた。
☆分詞構(時制差あり)
Lavey p.p.
シンガポール
flaving lived in 22 fire,
my son can speak English.

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Back in Japan, Hirose went to work to solve
the problems he had found in Afghanistan. The
idea he came up with was to use an ordinary four-
へを思いつく
wheel vehicle. He developed Gryphon V, which has
a movable arm that can locate mines. Extending
its long arm, it can mark where the mines are.
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After that, Afghan workers can remove them with
simple tools, which means that they can keep their
jobs. Gryphon V is much less expensive than Titan
IX and can be easily fixed if it breaks. And this new
robot is simple for Afghan workers to operate.
Other Japanese scientists and engineers have
been working to develop different types of robots.
Researchers at a university in Chiba are working
on an insect-like robot with a metal detector. An _
NPO has developed a robot which shows an image
of the mine on a screen. A company in Yamanashi
has developed a machine which clears the ground
of mines by exploding them.
clear A of B = AM^s Beay<
Hirose and other Japanese scientists and
engineers are making good progress in demining
べにおいて進歩する。
technology. Japan is contributing to the
貢献する
international movement to clear the earth of mines.
① There is no time to lose. We are working
against the clock.
clear
deprive of
rob
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取り除く

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①時間を無駄にはできない
②私たちは時間と競争で
奮闘している