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Japanese Robot Eats Snow, Poops Out Bricks of Ice
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| Wednesday, January 02, 2008
| FoxNews.com SciTech
Posted on 01/02/2008 9:13:12 PM PST by DogByte6RER
Japanese Robot Eats Snow, Poops Out Bricks of Ice
Wednesday, January 02, 2008
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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Miscellaneous; Science; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: ice; invention; pikachu; pokemon; robot; robots; scitech; snowcones; snowplow; technology; weird
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Domo arigato Mr. Roboto...ahgh!!! What's this mess that you left on my front yard?!?!
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posted on
01/02/2008 9:14:16 PM PST
by
DogByte6RER
("Loose lips sink ships")
To: Bender2; Slings and Arrows
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posted on
01/02/2008 9:14:44 PM PST
by
DogByte6RER
("Loose lips sink ships")
To: DogByte6RER
LOL
Give a different take on “$h** a brick”.....
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posted on
01/02/2008 9:15:07 PM PST
by
ASOC
(The Captain doesn't choose the storm....)
To: DogByte6RER
Somebody better warn it about eating the yellow snow.
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posted on
01/02/2008 9:15:31 PM PST
by
Free Vulcan
(Hey Iowans: the only opinions that matter are the ones in the room voting January 3rd.)
To: DogByte6RER
We’ve had that for years. It’s called a Zamboni.
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posted on
01/02/2008 9:16:41 PM PST
by
nhoward14
(Fred Thompson will get it DUN DUN in 2008!)
To: DogByte6RER
Just wait till they arm them with Shotguns and Missiles!
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posted on
01/02/2008 9:17:03 PM PST
by
PureSolace
(God save us all)
To: DogByte6RER
Should I bring one back on my next visit back to the USA, and start a bidding war here on FR?
/jk
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posted on
01/02/2008 9:17:14 PM PST
by
AmericanInTokyo
(Your FR Pledge: Bookmark It Today! "I Won't Support Mitt/Rudy/McCain/Huckster in General Election")
To: DogByte6RER
"Fish, and plankton, and sea greens, and protein from the sea. It's all here. Ready! Fresh as harvest day!"
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posted on
01/02/2008 9:17:32 PM PST
by
Incorrigible
(If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
To: DogByte6RER
If nothing else, the Japanese have a knack for taking something cold and mechanical and making it look friendly.
That thing is just downright cute.
I’m surprised their main battle tanks don’t have Hello Kitty decals all over them...
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posted on
01/02/2008 9:18:43 PM PST
by
Dr.Zoidberg
(Mohammedanism - Bringing you only the best of the 6th century for fourteen hundred years.)
The end result: Neatly stacked ice bricks.
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posted on
01/02/2008 9:18:44 PM PST
by
DogByte6RER
("Loose lips sink ships")
To: DogByte6RER
***Domo arigato Mr. Roboto...ahgh!!! What’s this mess that you left on my front yard?!?!***
If I had laughed out loud, I would have woken my neighbors.
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posted on
01/02/2008 9:19:04 PM PST
by
wastedyears
(Tell me why I had to be a powerslave... Iron Maiden March 14th, 2008)
To: DogByte6RER
Looks like
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posted on
01/02/2008 9:21:33 PM PST
by
JRios1968
(Don't mess with tigers, for you are crunchy and chewy...)
To: DogByte6RER
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posted on
01/02/2008 9:21:56 PM PST
by
Kirkwood
To: DogByte6RER
More information than I needed to know.
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posted on
01/02/2008 9:24:27 PM PST
by
TBP
To: DogByte6RER
“Watch out where those huskies go,
And don’t you eat that yellow snow.” — Frank Zappa.
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posted on
01/02/2008 9:25:25 PM PST
by
TBP
To: DogByte6RER
Farmers thought of it first.
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posted on
01/02/2008 9:25:45 PM PST
by
Loud Mime
(DB Cooper is still missing? He looks kinda like "W", maybe it was his fault!)
To: DogByte6RER
How useless. A machine that turns snow into ice. Big deal.
We have a lake that poops out snow and it turns into a block of ice every time it rains and freezes again.
I’m not impressed.
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posted on
01/02/2008 9:26:19 PM PST
by
metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
To: DogByte6RER
Sadly global warming will put an end to their plans.
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posted on
01/02/2008 9:30:42 PM PST
by
Kirkwood
To: DogByte6RER
We need a robot that eats journalists, democratic politicians and terrorists while it poops coal and pees gasoline....
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posted on
01/02/2008 9:30:51 PM PST
by
2ndDivisionVet
(Your "dirt" on Fred is about as persuasive as a Nancy Pelosi Veteran's Day Speech)
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The end result: Neatly stacked ice bricks.