Yuki-taro autonomous snowplow

Yuki-taro is another cool robot developed in Japan. This robot is designed to operate as an autonomous snowplow. It takes snow in the front and packs it into ice cubes. The robot relies on GPS and vision to navigate autonomously although I am not certain if it is already in use or just a prototype (probably the latter.) This is one robot that I can get a bit excited about just because it is actually designed to do something useful and also because given current technology I believe that it is possible to build. There is some more technical information available at the project website linked here translated from Japanese using the Google translation tool.