Scientists at the University of the West of England (UWE) have designed a robot that does not require batteries or electricity to power itself.
Instead, it generates energy by catching and eating houseflies.
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The EcoBot II uses human sewage as bait to catch the insects. It then digests the flies, before their exoskeletons are turned into electricity, which enables the robot to function.
This is one of the holy grails for robotics. Something that can ingest organic matter and derive required energy through normal digestion processes. Now all it needs to be is bigger and super-smart and become self aware and then start eating people once it realizes it doesn't need us anymore.
or maybe they'll put us in goo pods and hook our brains up to a simulated reality and use us as batteries
for some odd reason, while the word "Ganya" was still just a thought-dropping in my head, I thought it'd only be four letters. But apparently it's five. yep.
This is interesting. Forget about building the robot, how about building me a digestion and fly trap that huge enough for me to use it to power my home? Take me off the grid and let me poo for my electrical requirements.
Dekka00 said this in post #4 : or maybe they'll put us in goo pods and hook our brains up to a simulated reality and use us as batteries
Well it wouldn't need to use us as batteries if it could simply put us in a freezer until it was low on energy... and then just eat us, like Sean said...
Schorching the sky would be pointless...
Wouldn't that be a twist in the matrix series?
Now they have an excuse to make a 4th film!
Please pardon my pseudo-intellectuaphilisophicalismysiticality.
12-31-2004 08:12 PM
