Dustbot: a real-life Wall-E you can text
It’s essentially a Segway with a trash compactor on top, driving on a wire, but that’s still pretty awesome. Although it was designed and built for Italian cities (those narrow streets are murder for garbage trucks), the obvious application is Japan. They love this stuff, and I can’t believe it wasn’t invented there first.
There’s plenty more pics and video at the Dustbot site, though it’s mostly in Italian and some of the huuuge pictures download at less than 10KB/sec. Come on.
[via TG Daily]