This snowbot is coming to help plow the Rideau Canal skateway

Professors and graduate students from Carleton University plan to unleash a robot onto the Rideau Canal Skateway later this month so it can remove snow when the ice is too thin and dangerous for humans and heavier equipment to tread on.

This snowbot is coming to help plow the Rideau Canal skateway
Snowbot for Rideau Canal Skateway being tested by Carleton University researchers

Professors and graduate students from Carleton University plan to unleash a robot onto the Rideau Canal Skateway later this month so it can remove snow when the ice is too thin and dangerous for humans and heavier equipment to tread on.