Tokyo: Neither rain, sleet or hail could stop a Japanese robot from climbing the Grand Canyon, with the hand-sized “Evolta” scaling a 530 meter cliff in just under seven hours.
Powered by two AA batteries on its back, the blue robot inched up a thin rope with its hands and feet over four days late last month, hampered by rain and heavy wind, but making it to the top on its sixth try.
The 134 gram robot was part of a battery campaign by Matsushita Electric Industrial Co Ltd. “It was freezing cold and the weather was horrible with rain and hail pouring over us,” Toshiya Inoue of Matsushita’s communication group told Reuters.
“The robot wasn’t waterproof so the battery broke down at one point,” he said. Video footage showed “Evolta” sliding down the wire, but soon picking up its snailpaced ascent. The final feat took six hours and 46 minutes. REUTERS
Powered by two AA batteries on its back, the blue robot inched up a thin rope with its hands and feet over four days late last month, hampered by rain and heavy wind, but making it to the top on its sixth try.
The 134 gram robot was part of a battery campaign by Matsushita Electric Industrial Co Ltd. “It was freezing cold and the weather was horrible with rain and hail pouring over us,” Toshiya Inoue of Matsushita’s communication group told Reuters.
“The robot wasn’t waterproof so the battery broke down at one point,” he said. Video footage showed “Evolta” sliding down the wire, but soon picking up its snailpaced ascent. The final feat took six hours and 46 minutes. REUTERS
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