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iceteaplease 53M
753 posts
1/2/2008 3:09 pm
Got to get one of these

This is pretty cool, can you imagine seeing these things rolling down your street saving us all the back pain and snivels from shoveling.

What's cute, yellow, eats snow and poops out bricks of ice?

Meet Yuki-taro, a Japanese robot built to quickly clear roads after heavy snows.

The cute little guy, about 5 feet long and 2 and a half feet high, simply plows into snowbanks, taking in the white stuff, compressing it and neatly stacking it in two-foot-long bricks on his rear bed.

Created by a consortium of private companies, municipal governments and university researchers, Yuki-taro is equipped with two video cameras in his "eyes" as well as a GPS tracking system to be completely self-guided.

The prototype has already won a design award, and doctored photos of it modified to look like the popular Pokemon character Pikachu have popped up online.


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Kharbor 54F

1/2/2008 3:50 pm

How cool is that! I gotta get one of those things.

God's blessings always,
Karen

God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
~C.S. Lewis~

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Independance
(Patricia )
62F

1/2/2008 5:02 pm

Love Pikachu, i could use one to clean my parking spot
but i'm sure it's pricey!

Life is an adventure.


GreenGal777
(Lisa H)
62F
1182 posts
1/2/2008 6:33 pm

Erik,
sounds super "cool"

thanks for the info, Lisa


ms_littlething07 67F

1/3/2008 2:37 am

We don't get snow......how would it fare as a vacuum cleaner for my son's room do you think???

PENELOPE
"For I know the Plans I have for you, declares the Lord" Jer 29:11