Another robot that eats living tissue for fuel has been piloted. Two robots, actually, one from Maine, the other from South Korea. They are
[a] pair of prototype robots are designed to catch bugs, a major step on the path toward robots that can hunt, catch and digest their own meals.
Their dual inspiration ?
Engineer Mohsen Shahinpoor said the manner in which a Venus flytrap’s lobes contract looks remarkably similar to the way his IPMC contracts in the presence of a voltage.
These aren't the first - or won't be, assuming they enter production. We noted the delightfully-named EATR a few years ago, and caught the Pentagon denying the use of human corpses for bot fuel.
Infocult: tracking our eager race towards Skynet.
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