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[Ripclawe]

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996366

It may eat flies and stink to high heaven, but if this robot works, it will be an important step towards making robots fully autonomous.

To survive without human help, a robot needs to be able to generate its own energy. So Chris Melhuish and his team of robotics experts at the University of the West of England in Bristol are developing a robot that catches flies and digests them in a special reactor cell that generates electricity.



So what is the downside? The robot will most likely have to attract the hapless flies by using a stinking lure concocted from human excrement

 

[Matlock]

Something here is full of shit.

 

[xsarien]

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996366

Robots that can fight for their own survival is the first step down the road to living in a horrible science fiction movie. You'd think these scientists would heed the wornings of, say, Terminator or hell, even The Matrix.

 

[Manabanana]

If flies can power robots, car hoods should be equipped with bug vacuums for an alternate fuel source.

 

[Ripclawe]

>>Here we go.. 100 years from now, they will be your overlords!!!!

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040910/D850HEDO0.html

Engineer Builds Robot That Walks on Water

PITTSBURGH (AP) - It could be called a mechanical miracle - a robot that walks on water. With inspiration from nature and some help from research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a research team led by Carnegie Mellon engineering assistant professor Metin Sitti has built a tiny robot that can walk on water, much like insects known as water skimmers, water skaters, pond skaters or Jesus bugs.

Although it's only a basic prototype, Sitti and other researchers imagine that his water-skimming robot could be used on any still water. With a chemical sensor, it could monitor water supplies for contamination or other toxins; with a camera it could be a spy or an explorer; with a net or a boom, it could skim contaminants off the top of water.

 

[Dead]

I dont want to be a duracell

 

[karasu]

Golden Age Superhero comics were right. Science will ruin our world.

 

[Stryder]

If flies can power robots, car hoods should be equipped with bug vacuums for an alternate fuel source.

 

[RiZ III]

Im designing a robot that runs completly on the blood of virgins.

 

[Azih]

just female virgins right?

 

[Mike Works]

So it'll be just like the Matrix, except they'll be harvesting our asses.