Japan Style

Terrible winter in Niigata, Japan produces an abundance of snow, whic can cause problem for resident especially parents are faced with the tedious task of cleaning the street. To do it, now proudly present Yuki-taro ^_^, an automatic snowplow robot developed by a team of researchers from five organization in Niigata area. Yuki-taro measures that appear friendly 160 x 95 x 75 cm and weight 400 kg. Equipped with GPS and a pair of Video cameras embedded in the eye, which guides the robot itself is looking for snow and swallowed into the huge mouth. Part of Yuki-taro consist of a system to compact the snow into hard bricks measuring 60 x 30 x 15 cm, which Yuki-taro expelled from the rear. These bricl can then be tacked and stored until summer, and can be used as an alternative cooling source.