Have you, like millions of other Americans, ever thought: "I like war, but something about it just seems a little too... reverent"? Well fret no longer. The Pentagon (which is now evidently headed by George A Romero) has contracts with a Maryland robotics company that is developing a robot capable of running on... wait for it... dead bodies.
Robotic Technology Inc.'s Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot — that's right, "EATR" — "can find, ingest, and extract energy from biomass in the environment (and other organically-based energy sources), as well as use conventional and alternative fuels (such as gasoline, heavy fuel, kerosene, diesel, propane, coal, cooking oil, and solar) when suitable," reads the company's Web site.
That "biomass" and "other organically-based energy sources" wouldn't necessarily be limited to plant material — animal and human corpses contain plenty of energy, and they'd be plentiful in a war zone.
I'm certain I'm not the only one who recognizes that there is absolutely no difference to a fuel-seeking program between a corpse and a live person. What could possibly go wrong?
This sounds like a bad sci-fi movie, a mix between Terminator and the Matrix with a better plot. So we build machines that then hunt us and turn us into fuel so they can survive. Good I idea.
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Didn't check the links before I posted. Looks like you had the same Idea.
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Remember: you don't have to outrun the zombie robot, you only have to outrun Darrell.
ReplyDeleteImportant to note that the robot will not run on anything from a Hardee's restaurant.
ReplyDeleteImportant to note that the robot will not run on anything from a Hardee's restaurant.
ReplyDeleteExcept the cashiers, of course.
I repeat: Nothing from a Hardee's restaurant.
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