12-31-2004, 10:57 AM | #1 (permalink) | |
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Robot Eats Houseflies to Power Itself
Yep, they've finally invented a self-sustaining (sorta) robot, actually rather odd how it works. Wonder what the next step up from this would be... eating rats?
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12-31-2004, 11:54 AM | #4 (permalink) |
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I wish the article would have described in more detail the process of turning organic material into electricity.
If such technology can be stuffed into a robot, why can't it be used to generate electricity elsewhere: cars, homes, electricity grid, & etc. ?
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12-31-2004, 12:59 PM | #5 (permalink) | |
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Hmm... I do wonder, though, how the robot gets energy from the sugars. Could it be that the robot hydrolyzises glucose in the same manner as living things do? If so... then aren't we really a lot closer to creating a cyborg than we realize?
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12-31-2004, 01:35 PM | #6 (permalink) | |
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With a mustache, the cool factor would be too much
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01-02-2005, 08:29 PM | #10 (permalink) |
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Hmm, Seems I've seen that concept somewhere before...Like Back to the Future!
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