In order to showcase the power of their recently introduced Evolta batteries, Panasonic let a small robot climb up a 500 meter-cliff at Grand Canyon on Saturday. The Atomboy look-a-like weighs 134 grams and is 17 cm tall.
It took the robot precisely 6 hours and 46 minutes to pull off the PR stunt. The little guy was powered by just 2 Panasonic Evolta AA cells while hoisting himself up a rope.
Pics or it didn’t happen
Hmm, difficult. The one picture you may find on the web of the Evolta robot climbing up the Grand Canyon is not real.
Panasonic used it in their press release from May 20th but the whole thing happened a few days later:
http://panasonic.co.jp/corp/news/official.data/data.dir/jn080520-1/jn080520-1.html?ref=news
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