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Robot Eats Flies to Generate Power

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the carnivorous-automotons dept.

ms47 writes "Interesting little story over at MSNBC today about 'robots that can be sent into dangerous or inhospitable areas to carry our remote industrial or military monitoring of, say, temperature or toxic gas concentrations.' The neat part is it's powered by 'catching flies and digesting them in special fuel cells.'"

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  1. Wait a minute here... by d474 · · Score: 5, Insightful
    "...military monitoring of, say, temperature or toxic gas concentrations..."
    Why would the military have the need to be monitoring toxic gas levels with robots that use flies as an energy source? Well...

    If there is a major chemical weapons attack on a major population center there will be a lot of dead people. Where there are lots of dead people there are flies. Hence, the need for a robot that can sustain it's power needs with a fuel source available both day and night...Nothing to see here. Move along.
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