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Japanese Robot Eats Snow, Poops Out Bricks of Ice
Posted: January 3rd, 2008, 9:37 am
by Rocketfan
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.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,319473,00.html
Posted: January 3rd, 2008, 11:09 am
by Sly Fox
Yet another Rocketfan "find".
Posted: January 3rd, 2008, 11:18 am
by LUconn
So, is this robot of any relation to this hypothetical robot? I sure hope not.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/lif ... 14105.html
Posted: January 3rd, 2008, 11:19 am
by Rocketfan
Sly Fox wrote:Yet another Rocketfan "find".
what are you trying to say sly....the topics are "find" are either interesting or funny i think.
Posted: January 3rd, 2008, 11:22 am
by Sly Fox
So now you are surfing my local fishwrap, LUconn? I got my free issue in the yard yesterday with that classy piece of "news" in it.
Posted: January 3rd, 2008, 11:23 am
by Sly Fox
Posted: January 3rd, 2008, 12:50 pm
by PAmedic
My man ROCKET comes thru again.
you people from flyover country just don't get it.
Posted: January 3rd, 2008, 1:22 pm
by Rocketfan
Posted: January 3rd, 2008, 1:23 pm
by RubberMallet
2 robots 1 cup
Posted: January 3rd, 2008, 1:53 pm
by Sly Fox
Don't even go there, Mallet.
Posted: January 3rd, 2008, 2:24 pm
by El Scorcho
Oh good grief. This the last place I expected that reference. Gross.
Posted: January 3rd, 2008, 3:09 pm
by RubberMallet
*cackle*
Posted: January 3rd, 2008, 3:10 pm
by TDDance234
RubberMallet wrote:2 robots 1 cup
hahahahahaha.
