Out in the snow Bots! - Robot Art - 2000

Conceived in 2000, the "Kirvesniemi" (was the original name given to this Skiing Robot) was realized as part of a study commissioned by the LEGO Company -- named the Book of Records - regarding the exploration of possibilities in building up games through the LEGO MINSTORMS programmable brick.
Probably, Kirvesniemi was the first robot moving out in the snow ever.
It showed a robust behaviour and was relentless and practically unstoppable.

Follows "Missliding", second prototype of skiing machine.

There is not a special meaning in all of that, apart from the fact that sometimes you love to put yourself in a challenging situation and, as you can easily note, it was pretty bizarre to run a LEGO robot in such a tough environment!

:-)

Acknowledgements:
Thanx to Henrik Hautop Lund for promoting and coordinating the project.
Thanx to Jens Aage Arendt for the help in robot building.
Thanx to LEGO Company for sponsoring the project.
Thanx to the Adaptronics Group for filming the robots.
Thanx to Andrea Gabriele (a.k.a. Pirandélo) for the music. (Track "Enter Nature", 2006)
http://www.pirandelo.org/

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[airkraft13]

hahah thast soo cool. i never though of mixing lego with snow. i think i will have to try that one time(if we ever get any snow over here in England) when i do make a snow robot (most probably a snow mobile or skier), i will post it to my website:

airkraft-nxt. webs. com

be sure to see if it meets up to your standards!

yours chillerly,

Airkraft-NXT

[luigipagliarini]

I will! Luigi

[J123M123L]

wow, exelent funny

[luigipagliarini]

thanx!!! :-) Luigi

[mobius713]

AWESOME! I'm surely gonna make one like the first robot!