Hagent is a portable heating concept by German designers Andreas Meinhardt and Daniel Abendroth. It looks like a simple black box on the outside, but the mobile robot is capable of searching out heat, absorbing it, and then re-releasing the heat in cold places.
http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/home-robots/this-robotic-black-box-will-make-your-life-warmer
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