Robocanoe

[Mason]

"A canoe that can paddle itself with robotic arms, leaving the operator free to take a deep breath, sit back, and concentrate on not capsizing."

https://hackaday.com/2025/09/01/robotic-canoe-puts-robot-arms-to-work/

As I enjoy paddling, this doesn't do it for me. However, drone re-supplies and portage assistance could be interesting.....

Ahhhh, progress!

 

[Boatman53]

I saw that this morning too. It’s amazing what people will spend time on.

Jim

 

[SouthernKevlar]

Lazy folk will always find a way to be lazy.

 

[samb]

Lazy folk will always find a way to be lazy.

They have to work hard for it though

 

[Alan Gage]

It’s amazing what people will spend time on.

No doubt he and his buddies think the same thing when they see us patching together worn out canoes.

Alan

 

[billconner]

shouldn't it drone canoe?

 

[Black_Fly]

Why not just add an electronic prop motor?

 

[Gamma1214]

Personally, I'd rather it portaged itself. (Maybe even with me still in it... that might come in handy)

 

[Dana]

Lazy folk will always find a way to be lazy.

It's not about being lazy, that took a lot of work. As somebody who's well out along the engineering spectrum, I totally get it. It's about the build and making it work, not using it. He'll probably play with it a couple of times and then take it apart and build something else.

Like the airboat I once built from an old rowing shell, a big chainsaw motor, and the biggest model airplane propeller I could find... it did 12 knots amid an earsplitting whine. Took it out twice and then dismantled it and moved on to other projects.