Robots - The EATR

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Subject: Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot [EATR]

Players: DARPA, Cyclone Power Technologies, Robotic Technology

Brief: Researchers at Robotic Technology say the robots will collect organic matter to use as fuel.

The Buzz: There are three phases in robotics ... Hardware (functional machinery), Software(modeled AI), Vaporware(brainstorm theoretical). A biomass engine used to power the EATR, project is sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Robots are designed to be self-sufficient ... observe, react to their enivorment, just like real life forms.

Reports

“Despite the far-reaching reports that this includes human bodies, the public can be assured that the engine Cyclone has developed to power the EATR runs on fuel no scarier than twigs, grass clippings and wood chips. … Desecration of the dead is a war crime … and is certainly not something sanctioned by DARPA, Cyclone or RTI.” - Cyclone Power (pdf)

The purpose of the Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot (EATR)™ (patent pending) project is to develop and demonstrate an autonomous robotic platform able to perform long-range, long-endurance missions without the need for manual or conventional re-fueling, which would otherwise preclude the ability of the robot to perform such missions. The system obtains its energy by foraging – engaging in biologically-inspired, organism-like, energy-harvesting behavior which is the equivalent of eating. It can find, ingest, and extract energy from biomass in the environment.
- Robotic Technology

But if you picked up anything on flesh-eating robots over the years you know they’ll ignore that tasty soybean field and make a chow line right to the nearest dead body. And, if the machines can’t find enough dead people to eat, they can always make new ones. - WIRED.com

Fox News tells us, it could dine on dead bodies. Our carcasses and those of other animals are, apparently, full of energy. And given that EATR is being created for some military purposes, there should be plenty of battlefield corpses for it to feed on. - CNET.com

Comments

@JoeBiden "We have to eat the humans to save the humans"

@DickCheney "When can I Eat? RRRRRRRRHHHHH!"

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