Japanese Snow Plow! We need this....
By Melizzy
@Melizzy (1381)
United States
February 10, 2007 10:01pm CST
Clearing big drifts of snow sucks, if not for the fact that you're doing manual labor in freezing cold weather then because the tools just aren't cute enough. Leave it to Japan to solve both these horrible problems with one delightful robot.
Yuki-taro is an autonomous snowplow robot that is loaded with GPS and a couple of video cameras to make its way around. It doesn't just push snow around, oh no. It eats snow, turns it into compressed blocks, then poops them out so they can be used later for alternate sources of cooling and refrigeration.
1 response
@xphile777 (426)
• United States
18 Feb 07
What everyone needs: a snow-pooping robot. :)
Sorta like roomba for snow. Except roomba doesn't poop. And it's indoors. And it doesn't have a GPS unit. And it's not for snow.
OK, so maybe it's not like roomba. :P
I don't have a need for snow-plowing mechanisms because I don't have to plow snow, so I guess I don't need Yuki-taro. But I do need roomba.
