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Someone get these people some venture capital now. I want one next year.

(Also, a coat of WD40 on the blade keeps snow from sticking).

Aw, shoot. You said ‘robot’ and I thought it was autonomous. Nothing more than a giant RC car with a snowplow tho.

Oh well, still neat.

@nickhacks: It is not that far fatched to go from RC to autonomous. Contact the people who made it and offer your time to program it for them!

lol he forgot bout sumthin getting jacked this thing remove snow not ice hes gonna jack itself XD

OMG, I want one too. Please, give us more info about this.

Works well with 3cm of snow.
how about in REAL winter, lets say… Buffalo, or, better yet, Canada, the Neatherlands
where a decent snow fall over night can reach over 30 CM – how’s it work on icy conditions? how about packing snow? i bet 15CM of packing snow with a nice 2cm layer of frozen top would have that shoving with all its might and not budging a CM

get back to me with videos of REAL winter, you know, one where cars get buried and you leave your house via second store windows.

OK, when can I pick up one of these at Lowes!?

wouldn’t take much to set up an electronic perimeter and make it autonomous. Also if you are concerned about how it functions in more snow just program it to go out every hour through a small door in your garage and work by itself, could also program it to return to its charging station like the rumba (I think thats what its called)

nice child coffin body

I gotta go with Elfere on that one, I’d like to see how it would perform here in Canada. Trust me, first REAL storm > 20cm that thing would go absolutely nowhere unless someone fits it with a SNOWBLOWER instead of a blade.

They can work on it, you know? That plower may just be a prototype.

Pretty cool. I think it should have a track like a tank instead of 6 wheels.

i want one right now!!

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Not talking MIT bright here.

I thought it was awesome!

looks pretty nice, except … unless it has some serious weight and traction, it could well prove to be useless in any kind of snow except light powder. I’ll take the shovel. If the shovel should break or wear out, it’s a lot cheaper to repair or replace outright. Take this idea a little farther along, and it’ll be “SWEET!!!” instead of just “cool!”.

Fantastic! Absolutely superb, and just the thing for chasing cats too.

who goes through all the trouble to build a robot that plows snow? how bout a robot that builds shelters or something?

Awesome! Very very cool stuff. The video person needs to learn how to spell though.

Snowblower for deeper stuff? It would use alot of energy though.

Give this to some old man and watch the kids fly

Awesome!
I think that there is a market for a device like this one.
I live in up north europe (sweden to be exact) and in winters with lots of snow a robot like this would be a really efficient way to get rid of the snow.
great work!

660 Amps of Power? Amps isn’t a unit of power, as anyone smart enough to make this machine ought to know.

cool. I was expecting autonomous operation via gps+cam+sonar sensors and anticollision software though.. You could probably transplant the brains of a roomba and have a sick little machine. The LED lights are a very nice touch although flashing yellow beacons in front and rear would be more suitable and give it better visibility. Don’t forget the height sensor for autosetting the blade height!

My first thought was ‘where is the snow?’ Heck, round these parts, that amount of snow wouldn’t even be worth shoveling…a slight dusting. Can you imagine that thing hitting the wall-of-crap the plow drivers always leave at the end of your driveway about 30 seconds after you finish plowing your driveway?

Cool RC car.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampere

moron

Um…firefoot is correct.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watt

moron right back at ya.