Robot Eats Flies to Generate Power

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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Re:BENEDICT ARNOLDS OF THE OPEN SOURCE MOVEMENT

[name773]

What do you have to look forward to?
some excellent programming :)

Que Matrix inspired tin foil beanie

[funkdid]

My fiance is a teacher specializing in early childhood developement. It's amazing how closly technology mirrors the human body. For example many human developmental disorders have computers equivalents; processing delays, etc.

Even computers wether it was subconscious or not mirror our own brains. It seems our entire curve of technological development is based on our ingrained frame of reference, OURSELVES!

Finding alien life, or maybe researching the oddities on our own planet may cause inspiration that leads us down another path, technologically speaking. I for one could use some gills, wings wouldn't be bad either. To those of you in the biotech fields please get cracking.