Watch: This Adorable Robot Snowblower Clears Your Yard of Drifts So You Don’t Have to-
The autonomous robot can clear up to 1,500 square feet of snow on a single charge.
The following written content by Bryan Hood
It can be magical to wake up and discover it snowed all night. That is, until you have to find your shovel and clear a pathway to your driveway.
Luckily, thanks to Hanyang Robotics you may never have to do the arduous task again. That’s because the company has just introduced Snowbot S1, an autonomous snow-blower that can clear a path through up to 12 inches of snow so you don’t have to.
The Snowbot S1 works like any other snowblower with one key (and extremely appealing) difference—you don’t have to push it. Instead, all you need to do is set up three beacons and a receiving terminal around the area that needs to be cleared and then use the companion smartphone app to set the machine on its way. The robot is able to clear up to 1.3 feet of snow per second with its hard rubber auger and can operate for an hour and a half on a single charge, allowing it to clear up to 1,500 square feet of snow. It’s also equipped with a LIDAR sensor to help it avoid obstacles and it throws snow up to 12 feet away so you don’t have to worry about it accidentally covering the area it just cleared.
That may sound too good to be true, but Hanyang Robotics has shared video of the robot in action. In the clip, you can see that, despite the machine’s relatively compact size, it can cut through the snow with ease. Or at least with a lot more ease than it would take you to accomplish the same task. Read more from Robb Report.
