Nothing can stop these little guys. Panasonic’s Evolta battery-powered robots were already pretty impressive, but now they’re going for a hat trick of endurance-testing awesomeness by taking on Hawaii’s Ironman Triathlon later this Fall.
Despite its diminutive size, Panasonic’s scrappy little EVOLTA-powered robot managed to make five laps around the LeMans circuit in France over a period of 24 hours before running out of juice. That’s nearly 24 km on just two AA batteries.
We first heard about the Guinness record-holding EVOLTA AA battery back in April, but at the time they were only available in Japan. However, Panasonic is bringing their new product to the States staring this October in AA or AAA four and eight packs (priced at $US5 and $US9 respectively). I would just stick with rechargeables, but hey—that’s just me.