Snow-eating GPS robot

I don't care that it's not snowing any more and that it probably won't ever again. This was just too cool to pass up.

I heart robots. Not in a clunky-fetish way (I'm into humans, y'see), but in a how cool is the future and ohmygodthatoneiscute way. And this is the coolest robot I've seen since the last cool robot I saw. Except this one also happens to be cool in a literal way.

Yuki-taro (it even has a name!) uses GPS and video cameras to navigate his way round the snow-covered streets, ridding them of snow. But he doesn't just push it to the side to get muddy and ruin your shoes like any old snow-plow, oh no. Son of Pikachu is way cooler than that - he eats it, and then craps it out in the form of blocks that can then be used to refrigerate/cool things. Hopefully not my cocktail...

[Via Gizmodo]

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