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

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by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 08, @07:11PM (#10195746)

* Marc Andreessen made 100s of millions of dollars shortly after graduating from UIUC. Today's graduates of the same university face moving back in with their parents. "Fuck that, I got mine!"
* Brian Behlendorf decided he'd rather go to India to recruit software engineers than help out the graduating classes of 2001-2004 here in the US.
* Robert Malda stood idly by and said NOTHING while his company offshored its flagship product.

Miguel de Icaza, Bruce Perens, Eric Raymond, and Linus Torvalds all got rich off the Open Source Movement. What do you have to look forward to?
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aduating from UIUC. Today's graduates of the same university face moving back in with their parents. "Fuck that, I got mine!"
* Brian Behlendorf decided he'd rather go to India to recruit software engineers than help out the graduating classes of 2001-2004 here in the US.
* Robert Malda stood idly by and said NOTHING while his company offshored its flagship product.

Miguel de Icaza, Bruce Perens, Eric Raymond, and Linus Torvalds all got rich off the Open Source Movement. What do you have to look forward to?
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by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 08, @07:11PM (#10195746)

* Marc Andreessen made 100s of millions of dollars shortly after graduating from UIUC. Today's graduates of the same university face moving back in with their parents. "Fuck that, I got mine!"
* Brian Behlendorf dec

ided he'd rather go to India to recruit software engineers than help out the graduating classes of 2001-2004 here in the US.

* Robert Malda stood idly by and said NOTHING while his company offshored its flagship product.

Miguel de Icaza, Bruce Perens, Eric Raymond, and Linus Torvalds all got rich off the Open Source Movement. What do you have to look forward to?
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by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 08, @07:11PM (#10195746)

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[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.

We don' need no steenking robots!

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'Nuff said!