Upcoming Military Robot Could Feed on Dead Bodies

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Tuesday, July 14, 2009

It could be a combination of 19th-century mechanics, 21st-century technology — and a 20th-century horror movie.

A Maryland company under contract to the Pentagon is working on a steam-powered robot that would fuel itself by gobbling up whatever organic material it can find — grass, wood, old furniture, even dead bodies.

Robotic Technology Inc.'s Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot — that's right, "EATR" — "can find, ingest, and extract energy from biomass in the environment (and other organically-based energy sources), as well as use conventional and alternative fuels (such as gasoline, heavy fuel, kerosene, diesel, propane, coal, cooking oil, and solar) when suitable," reads the company's Web site.

That "biomass" and "other organically-based energy sources" wouldn't necessarily be limited to plant material — animal and human corpses contain plenty of energy, and they'd be plentiful in a war zone.

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I guess-

it gives new meaning to the term "Leave no man behind" .

-Doctors pour drugs of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, into human beings of whom they know nothing.
-The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. -Voltaire-

Gives new meaning to the term....

"Take me to your leader."

"I'll be back. Hasta La Vista, Baby."

(Cyborg robots....seriously what...are they all wound up using Cheney's artificial mechanical heart?!)

This is so Matrix

If you can believe it, I just watched it for the first time last week.

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Tho

Where have we seen this idea before?

Oh yeah, It was "The Invisible Monster", Jonny Quest, 1-29-65.

Damn It!!

I wanted to eat people when I was in the Army and my chain of command woudn't let me!! and now they are going to let a robot eat the dead?....as if a robot is worthier than I of such delicacy....not fair! :)

next we'll be hearing about robots turning into zombies......

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It does solve that nasty littering problem.

After a few days of lying around, we humans start to stink, even when we are alive.

Biomass is people!

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Ooo

"Robot Green" heh.

my 1st thought was a mix of the back to the future car and my old willys jeep that would run on just about anything and had a roll of toilet paper for an oil filter... I want vehicles like That!

These would work really well

These would work really well in case of a domestic biological attack or swine flu outbreak

Ventura 2012

Sounds more accurate...

For whatever they plan on attempting to do to us, in actuality, and not the other way around. Like to see if they could even get these robots to work!

Something else to ponder

Since this is a legit article, who's to say they are planning to use these little b@stards for war? Maybe, they'll use em to clean up all the dead bodies from what ever they plan on doing to us.

I thought the Pentagon....

.....Who's never been in many real fights at all, loved using our "Military & Soldiers" as the Toys for their "mighty revolutions" around the world with a global police force?

What happened to their sense of "honor" and favoritism?

Don't you have a use for those boys in uniform anymore?

Trying to replace everyone with robots? I say let the Pentagon be completely wiped out by a few stray grenades.......

robots.

Robots won't "blow the whistle" on your illegal orders....

“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.” Plato

“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.” Plato

Yeah,

Something else that struck me odd, that they would mention dead bodies as a source of fuel! WTF? Is that what our worth has become to these B@stards? FUEL!!!!! WTF!!!

I can see it now...

Earth with nothing on it eventually, but these rusty long dead things everywhere.

As soon as this works

As soon as this works they'll have no use for us anymore.

Well, we'll still be useful

Well, we'll still be useful as fuel.

Yeah, but only if we're dead!

"When I despair, I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it, always." -Mahatma Gandhi

Yikes, I blanked that thought out

I wonder if the machine prefers us fresh and wiggling or soft and lifeless? I'd like to make sure I taste yummy for my final indignity.

Horrible

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