This Robot can’t Swim

Stolen robot pulled from Beaverton Lake

Washington County Sheriff’s OfficeShown here in better days, this “Propeller Quadrover” robot, weighing 90 pounds and about two-and-a-half feet long, was stolen last Monday and recovered Sunday from Commonweath Lake.
Washington County Sheriff’s deputies made a strange discovery Sunday in Beaverton’s Commonwealth Lake — a stolen robot poking out of the water.

Severely damaged, the robot was traced back to a car prowl last Monday in Aloha. Sometime that night, thieves broke into a car belonging to Portland State University professor Erik Sanchez and made off with the $5,000, 90-pound robot he planned on using in his classes.