Mr Roboplow...
I'm just out of college, so snow no longer means "day off", it means either "day off without pay and with the possibily of being fired" OR "flaming death as your car slips and flips off the highway" OR "freezing death while you wait for AAA when the car gets stuck in the snow IF you can call them, since you'll end up in the one area of Northern VA that your cell phone can't get reception in".
As usual, Japanese robots are the answer.
"The friendly-looking Yuki-taro measures 160 x 95 x 75 cm (63 x 37 x 30 in.) and weighs 400 kg (880 lbs). Armed with GPS and a pair of video cameras embedded in its eyes, the self-guided robot seeks out snow and gobbles it up into its large mouth. Yuki-taro’s insides consist of a system that compresses the snow into hard blocks measuring 60 x 30 x 15 cm (24 x 12 x 6 in.), which Yuki-taro expels from its rear end."
Yuki the Ice Crapper seems to only be made for personal use so far. They're trying to bring the price down to...8,300 bucks!? Yeesh. I'll only pay that if the robot is shaped like Bumblebee's head. And only this Bumblebee's head, not the toy version with the faceplate, and not the Throttlebot Goldbug that we knew was crappy but bought him anyway because he was Bumblebee, dammit. "New, Improved Body" my butt. Yeah, new and improved except for having no arms.
And definitely not this atrocity.
(Hat tip: James Hudnall).
I'm just out of college, so snow no longer means "day off", it means either "day off without pay and with the possibily of being fired" OR "flaming death as your car slips and flips off the highway" OR "freezing death while you wait for AAA when the car gets stuck in the snow IF you can call them, since you'll end up in the one area of Northern VA that your cell phone can't get reception in".
As usual, Japanese robots are the answer.
"The friendly-looking Yuki-taro measures 160 x 95 x 75 cm (63 x 37 x 30 in.) and weighs 400 kg (880 lbs). Armed with GPS and a pair of video cameras embedded in its eyes, the self-guided robot seeks out snow and gobbles it up into its large mouth. Yuki-taro’s insides consist of a system that compresses the snow into hard blocks measuring 60 x 30 x 15 cm (24 x 12 x 6 in.), which Yuki-taro expels from its rear end."
Yuki the Ice Crapper seems to only be made for personal use so far. They're trying to bring the price down to...8,300 bucks!? Yeesh. I'll only pay that if the robot is shaped like Bumblebee's head. And only this Bumblebee's head, not the toy version with the faceplate, and not the Throttlebot Goldbug that we knew was crappy but bought him anyway because he was Bumblebee, dammit. "New, Improved Body" my butt. Yeah, new and improved except for having no arms.
And definitely not this atrocity.
(Hat tip: James Hudnall).
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