Upcoming Military Robot Could Feed on Dead Bodies

[woodyear99]

That's right in the future Terminators will eat your rotting corpses :s

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,532492,00.html?mrp

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.

[Redlum08]

That's right in the future Terminators will eat your rotting corpses :s

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,532492,00.html?mrp

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.

Uhhhhh, yea, who was the idiot that came up with this Idea? Give a robot a hunger for Organic food...brilliant plan there buddy, why not be the first victim to your creation of destruction...Whats going to stop the robot from wanting to eat people who are still ALIVE?? O_o

[woodyear99]

*Low Fuel Alert*
*Load foragR mode*
*Energy target acquired: Human*
*Rockets active.....*

Good idea, wonder if this technology can be put to use in other device such as cellphones etc. All those scraps for blackie and whitee now have other uses lol

[EmpireKing]

how comforting!

[Berzerk]

Im Hungry Dave...

[Redlum08]

Im Hungry Dave...

AHAHAHAHAHAHA

[Crixx_Creww]

think i posted this before, this thing has claws and a f**** chain saw
brilliant scientist who dont watch science fiction movies.

[Arcmanov]

Im Hungry Dave...

+1 to those you who can identify that reference WITHOUT resorting to Google.

[woodyear99]

Wasn't that HAL from Space Odyssey?

[Redlum08]

Wasn't that HAL from Space Odyssey?

DING DING DING!!
You've won a trip into space on a ship to Mars piloted by a Computer named HAL who wants to kill you after malfunctioning due to the obilisk in space...LOL

[Arcmanov]

Wasn't that HAL from Space Odyssey?

+1 to you sir. (You 'old' like me )

[woodyear99]

Lol but that is classic sci fi man, any fan of the genre should have seen it :p

[kiya]

WTF well looks like we've taken the first fatal step to having robots take over the world.. Next thing they will give it a chip that lets it think and learn... I wish the thing would just turn around and eat them...

[W1nTry]

Well I guess that's why they are also giving robots morals XD

[kiya]

Nah man this is just too much. Too creppy. Hope i dont dream about it tonight. (hangs up dream catchers) i doh think they realy think befor they make that nah. I can see them making a army of them things and setting em free and then they eat everything!!!!! AHHHHHH

[Berzerk]

yum