Showing posts with label robot. Show all posts
Showing posts with label robot. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 11, 2007

plowing snow is SO uncivilized


WIWI: Your tools are neither cute, nor sentient enough.

Yuki-Taro is an autonomous snowplow robot with a GPS brain and camera eyes (yes, its eyes are functional). Yuki doesn't simply push snow around like you would with your primitive shovel or snowblower; nay, it actually finds snow to eat, compresses the powdery substance into convenient rectangular blocks in its body, and poops them out the back so its ape-like master can come pick the blocks up later for easy disposal or alternate uses such as cooling or refrigeration.
~$8,300

Tuesday, April 10, 2007

stepping on a pedal is just too much work

WIWI: forget that plastic garbage that calls itself a waste receptacle (pun intended). anything robotic is better than its non-AI counterpart.


Eliminate cross-contamination with touch-free operation. The lid of the SimpleHuman sensor trash can opens automatically when you place your foot in the sensor zone at the base.
$200