Thursday, July 23, 2009

Maneater?

Darpa's Self-Feeding Sentry Robot is Not a Man-Eater, Company Says:

EATR Robot: It makes fuel out of what it finds
The makers of the Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot (EATR) have issued a statement saying that "this robot is strictly vegetarian," after news outlets ranging from Fox to CNET pounced on the flesh-eating potential of the bot designed to scavenge the landscape for biomass fuel sources.

"We completely understand the public's concern about futuristic robots feeding on the human population, but that is not our mission," said Harry Schoell, CEO of Cyclone Power Technologies.

Second helpings at: PopSci dot Com

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