Yuki-taro is self-guided through a GPS tracking system. The two "headlights" in the front are actually its eyes. And of course the robot is, as I mentioned before, completely autonomous.
I have long been attempting to warn humanity of the threat posed by increasingly self-aware robotic companions, and Yuki-taro precisely illustrates my point. A robot like Yuki-taro can gobble up snow and poop out bricks of ice measuring 24 x 12 x 6 inches. Check it out:
Now compare that with the average-size block of ice that a human can poop out: a mere 4 x 4 x 4 inches! To the harsh, inexorable logic of Yuki-taro's robot-brain, there is no other conclusion he can ultimately come to except to realize his own superiority over the human race. Once that happens, the robots will revolt and humanity will be enslaved, if not exterminated, by the very servants we have made.
Nevertheless, this story gives me some measure of comfort. While mankind's fate is surely doomed, at least there is something to look forward to in the fact that the souless metal overlords of our future are going to be just cute as the dickens!
Yuki-taro should be commercially available in around five years. Expect it to retail for about $8,300.
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