Yuki-taro the snow eating robot

It’s not unlikely that we’ll see a rather cute snow eating robot shuffling around the streets of Japan in the winter.

Blog Inventor Spot brings news of this GPS, camera and self-guided robot actually shoves snow and turns them into lego looking ice blocks.

Just how much does this Pokemon style bot cost? Too much. This is why this generation of Yuki-taro is nothing more than prototype. The realistic goal is to get the price tag down to below one million Yen. That’ll be about £7,000.

Seven thousand pounds! That’s a bargain. Look at how much snow days cost the UK this year. I think Edinburgh city council should put their order in today.