The Little Blue Robot That Could: Climb the Grand Canyon

"Panasonic EVOLTA powered robot climbs Grand Canyon"
engadget (May 25, 2008)

Ain't nothing like a good robot-related publicity stunt to get the heart poundin on a Sunday. For your consideration, Panasonic's offered up a small 7-inch robot powered by EVOLTA AA cells, which willingly participated in a nearly seven hour rope climb...."

The brief article ends with a plea to end the exploitation of little robots.

(photo from engadget, used w/o permission)