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Old 01-03-2008, 03:23 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Japanese Robot Eats Snow, Poops Out Bricks of Ice
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Meet Yuki-taro, a Japanese robot built to quickly clear roads after heavy snows. 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. 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.
Isn't that called a Zamboni? We've had that for years, have we not? ahaha...Thats pretty cool though. A device a little larger would be much more useful, however. One that could quickly turn large quantities of snow into transportable bricks of solid ice without using too much energy could be very useful for things like airports. Maybe we could all travel this time of year on time then...i should have that patented
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Oh, the Japanese! Always coming up with crazy gadgets. But they will be the first to die when the robots wage war against us.

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Japanese is japanese !
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Japanese are still strong in the field.

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Old 01-07-2008, 06:11 AM   #5 (permalink)
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Leave it to the Japanese to make their next scientific marval look like pikachu.
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