Upcoming Military Robot Could Feed on Dead Bodies

Fox News ^ | 7/14/09

[Kartographer]

Robotic Technology Inc.

EATR robots roam a barren landscape as an unmanned drone flies overhead in an artist's rendering. EATR robots roam a barren landscape as an unmanned drone flies overhead in an artist's rendering. It could be a combination of 19th-century mechanics, 21st-century technology — and a 20th-century horror movie.

A Maryland company under contract to the Pentagon is working on a steam-powered robot that would fuel itself by gobbling up whatever organic material it can find — grass, wood, old furniture, even dead bodies.

[Kartographer]

I still have chills running up and down my spine from reading this!

[RichInOC]

Outstanding. I propose we call it the Zombie.

[usurper]

Just wait until Sky-Net is activated.

[RockyMtnMan]

So it runs on voting liberals?

[MuttTheHoople]

[Kartographer]

Sounds good, if they ate their own we could call them Democrats!

[IrishPennant]

...fuel itself by gobbling up whatever organic material it can find — grass, wood, old furniture, even dead bodies.

No thanks...sounds like my relatives that visit over Christmas.

[mnehring]

The scenario becomes real interesting when they are built and programmed to self replicate using organic matter.

[EagleUSA]

Ah, overtones of SOYLENT GREEN — one of my favorite Charlton Heston movies...

[Alas Babylon!]

Why do the bodies have to be dead? Aren’t live bodies organic enough for it?

Double-chill!

[NativeNewYorker]

[Kartographer]

Have you ever thought maybe Obama is ‘Sky-Net’?

[4rcane]

humans are now batteries for these robots

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Can I feed it my teenaged neighbors?

[Kartographer]

Maybe they could build in a safety sensor which would scan for brain activity before it start cutting the bodies up for fuel, that way they be sure to get all the Democrats!

[Bobalu]

[DTogo]

These robots will be deployed outside the biohazard disposal hatch of Obama-care hospitals, hooked up to the local power grid.

Sustainable, eco-friendly energy?

[DoughtyOne]

And I presume they’ll register them as Democrats?

BTW, tell our guys not to fall asleep in that battlefield.

[Mount Athos]

Have you ever thought maybe Obama is ‘Sky-Net’?

I usually think of him as a cross between Jim Jones and Chavez. Hadn't considered sky net.

[wally_bert]

How about my worthless liberal yankee, loudmouth, arrogant, bitter, aged hippies that live next door?

[txroadkill]

Yeah, but the Fembot versions are kind of hot

[Kartographer]

New penalty for falling asleep at your post, no court martial you get rendered and eaten!

[DoughtyOne]

There you go...

[Stand Watch Listen]

So it runs on voting liberals?

[Wolfie]

I feel better. If we’re spending money on this, than the economy really IS recovering.

[Snickering Hound]

[popdonnelly]

As H.G. Wells’ Invisible Man said, there are some things that man should leave alone.

[Cheetahcat]

This is Way Cool.

http://www.cyclonepower.com/works.html

[GOP_Party_Animal]

I feel sorry for the company - they say NOTHING about feeding it corpses. That portion was totally added by the reporter.

[Kartographer]

That's modern journalism, you give a reporter 2 and 2 and he can work it into any number he wants!

[rbg81]

Outstanding. I propose we call it the Zombie.

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That was my thought: Robo-Zombies. It gets the most energy off the Brains....

[rbg81]

Who says it will wait until the bodies are dead?

[RepublitarianRoger2]

I propose that it starts feeding on reporters.

[GreenHornet]

Warning! Warning! Danger, Will Robinson!

[rocksblues]

Stupid is as stupid does!

[6SJ7]

A robot that eats human flesh What could possibly og worng.

[CharlesWayneCT]

How does it know the bodies are dead?

[max americana]

Remember the Matrix DVD when the robot said to the human after they lost the war?

“Hand me your flesh”.

[Pride in the USA]

It can get energy from any biomass source including dead human bodies. It can roam, on its own, for years without needing to be serviced. Can’t you just see it wandering into a community and getting its fuel from living people? I think I have seen too many horror movies.

[Lonely Bull]

I propose that it starts feeding on reporters.

What did that robot ever do to you?