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		Japan's automatic GPS-guided robot snowplow shiats snow bricks, just like Sarah Connor will when it finds her (inventorspot.com)		25
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way south		2013-02-11 07:53:09 AM

How long till its doing that with human bodies?

August11		2013-02-11 07:57:25 AM

I'd like to see that bot choke on the three feet of plowed crud at the end of my driveway.

Richard C Stanford		2013-02-11 07:59:52 AM

God d@mn it, I want one of those! Stupid investors.

WorkingInParadise		2013-02-11 08:12:22 AM

It reportedly makes a sound that is best described as: "E-e-e-e-e-ve..."

Pants full of macaroni!!		2013-02-11 08:23:17 AM

Definite HOTY contender. Bravissimo.

operatorJzigworthy		2013-02-11 08:40:10 AM

vudukungfu		2013-02-11 08:40:50 AM

Think of the igloos you could build with that thing.

Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired		2013-02-11 08:52:47 AM

Of course it has a face

TNel		2013-02-11 08:57:06 AM

Would be nice if they can large scale that into plow trucks so you don't have to get plowed in all the time.

WordsnCollision		2013-02-11 09:18:04 AM

/Son I am disappoint

StrangeQ		2013-02-11 09:18:45 AM

Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired: Of course it has a face

That's what I thought too. It's like Japan is actively trying to live up to its stereotypes.

Egoy3k		2013-02-11 09:21:03 AM

Isn't civilian GPS only accurate to within like a meter and a half? Wouldn't you want an automatic plow to be more accurate than that? I mean a meter and a half is the difference between driveway/parking lot and street/lawn?

oldfarthenry		2013-02-11 09:21:10 AM

Can they kinda butch it up for the North American market? The kids in my hood would declare my sidewalk "gay" if I used it with its present paint-job.

MindStalker		2013-02-11 09:43:53 AM

Egoy3k: Isn't civilian GPS only accurate to within like a meter and a half? Wouldn't you want an automatic plow to be more accurate than that? I mean a meter and a half is the difference between driveway/parking lot and street/lawn?

Well if you add to it some type of surface detection it could Roomba the whole place.

TNel		2013-02-11 09:51:26 AM

MindStalker: Egoy3k: Isn't civilian GPS only accurate to within like a meter and a half? Wouldn't you want an automatic plow to be more accurate than that? I mean a meter and a half is the difference between driveway/parking lot and street/lawn?

Well if you add to it some type of surface detection it could Roomba the whole place.

I wonder if you can program "walls" with it using it's own onboard GPS similiar to the roomba.

cgraves67		2013-02-11 09:52:55 AM

That's exactly what I imagined a robotic snowplow from Japan to look like.

mudpants		2013-02-11 10:15:02 AM

debut 2005?

insert old news is awesome jpg

WordsnCollision		2013-02-11 10:32:28 AM

cgraves67: That's exactly what I imagined a robotic snowplow from Japan to look like.

i116.photobucket.com

abhorrent1		2013-02-11 11:00:43 AM

Pants full of macaroni!!: Definite HOTY contender. Bravissimo.

Not sure if serious or subby.
Submitters who use that tired headline meme should be banned and then crotch punched until they die.

Genju		2013-02-11 11:04:29 AM

grinding_journalist		2013-02-11 12:44:51 PM

WordsnCollision: [weburbanist.com image 468x370]

/Son I am disappoint

I am suddenly filled with a desire to see that thing slam into something at 80mph. Perhaps a buffalo, or small automobile?