Fukushima, Market Failure, and Our Robot Overlords

One question comes to mind when contemplating the Fukushima meltdowns:  Where are the robots?  And I'm not alone in asking this obvious question.  It's a no-brainer to send in robots to a situation like this that fries humans.  But apparently, the Japanese, masters of automated production, don't have any that can deal with this crisis.  Nor has the vaunted free market produced any, probably because nuclear meltdowns only seem to happen once every couple of decades or so.  This is a fairly clear example where the government should have stepped in where the market hasn't and built robots to handle a disaster like this, as apparently the French and the Germans have.  Anyhow, for those of you concerned about being taken over by robot overlords anytime soon, the Fukushima disaster is clear evidence that robots are nowhere near being able to take over.  The best that the robots can do for us right now is take pictures, which although helpful does not stop the bleeding.