Upcoming Military Robot Could Feed On Dead Bodies

Upcoming Military Robot Could Feed on Dead Bodies
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,532492,00.html

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.

EATR will be powered by the Waste Heat Engine developed by Cyclone Power Technology of Pompano Beach, Fla., which uses an "external combustion chamber" burning up fuel to heat up water in a closed loop, generating electricity.

The advantages to the military are that the robot would be extremely flexible in fuel sources and could roam on its own for months, even years, without having to be refueled or serviced.

Upon the EATR platform, the Pentagon could build all sorts of things — a transport, an ambulance, a communications center, even a mobile gunship.

In press materials, Robotic Technology presents EATR as an essentially benign artificial creature that fills its belly through "foraging," despite the obvious military purpose.

This is awesome, to say the least.

muztaine wrote:

This is awesome, to say the least.

Until it starts hunting down Sarah Connors.

It's only a matter of time.

This is the worst idea. Were all going to die.

Whoa, it's like "Screamers," "The Terminator" and "Hardware" all rolled into one. YIKES!

Fat Freddy wrote:

Whoa, it's like "Screamers," "The Terminator" and "Hardware" all rolled into one. YIKES!

My thoughts exactly!! NWO anyone?

Very patriotic!

akeldama wrote:

NWO anyone?

Like I said, were all gonna fry big time.

I was thinking Terminator as well... There is no good reason to waste time building things like this. There was a thing on the dicovery channel about scientists already developing invisibility cloaks, think about that falling into the wrong hands. Criminals could abduct anyone at any time without being seen.

Troublezone wrote:

I was thinking Terminator as well... There is no good reason to waste time building things like this. There was a thing on the dicovery channel about scientists already developing invisibility cloaks, think about that falling into the wrong hands. Criminals could abduct anyone at any time without being seen.

Google "shadow people", apparently the technology has been around for awhile. Its just being disclosed recently.

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Google "shadow people", apparently the technology has been around for awhile. Its just being disclosed recently.

It said "shadow people" are a supernatural phenomena associated with ghosts. Didn't say anything about science.

Troublezone wrote:

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Google "shadow people", apparently the technology has been around for awhile. Its just being disclosed recently.

It said "shadow people" are a supernatural phenomena associated with ghosts. Didn't say anything about science.

The term shadow people falls into two categories, either people who think their related to ghosts and paranormal beings or others who believe its technology involving bending and altering light to act like a cloaking device. I cant remember which, but either Fox or CNN ran a spot on shadow people and supposed sightings a few years ago.

Biomass energy is not new, it's just being taken to the next level.

http://www.nrel.gov/biomass/

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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.

No doubt that America will be using this on their ongoing "You're Gonna Take Freedom and Like It" tour of the middle east. One will have the choice of U.S.-imposed freedom or a slow death of being eaten by one of our crazy ass robots.

I for one would like to welcome our new robot masters.

Actually this kind of thing has been around for awhile. I remember an article from a few years back about British scientists developing small robots for gardeners that would fuel themselves by devouring slugs (I guess they have a lot of slugs over there). One of the robots escaped from the test sight and was found weeks later, still roaming around eating slugs.

Scientists are doing way more harm than good with these stupid inventions. It's getting beyond the point of useful machines, now it's about cruelty and destruction.

They've "clarified" the story now.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,533382,00.html

why do the bodies have to be already dead to feed it?

mc666 wrote:

why do the bodies have to be already dead to feed it?

I was wondering the same thing. HIDE YOUR TODDLERS!

mc666 wrote:

why do the bodies have to be already dead to feed it?

Good point.

mc666 wrote:

why do the bodies have to be already dead to feed it?

ouch...