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akd
07-14-2009, 11:20 PM
Upcoming Military Robot Could Feed on Dead Bodies

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,532492,00.html?test=latestnews
Fancykiller65
07-15-2009, 12:57 AM
huh is FoxNews a good source?
Stalin's Organist
07-15-2009, 01:46 AM
How about Robo Tech's own page (http://www.robotictechnologyinc.com/index.php/EATR)on it?

Or, even better...a wiki page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energetically_autonomous_robots)!! ..OK - so it's not actually about EATR itself.....but there's others interested in the concepts involved and they consume dead flies, so that's pretty close.....
Affentitten
07-15-2009, 07:37 PM
I think the claims on that Wiki page as to be "the first" are wrong. I vividly recally in about maybe 2001 covering a robot that fed on slugs. It was designed to trundle up and down the rows on vegetable farms. It sensed slugs with IR and used an arm to scoop them into a tank on its back, where they were converted into biomass fuel.

....and a quick google proves there is indeed nothing new under the sun!

slug eating robot (http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,2100781,00.htm)
Patrocles
07-17-2009, 07:10 PM
huh is FoxNews a good source?

Yes, the best!
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