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Baby EATR

Upcoming Military Robot Could Feed on Dead Bodies

Fox News
July 14, 2009

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.



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.



EATR will be powered by the Waste Heat Engine developed by Cyclone Power Technology of Pompano Beach, Fla., which uses an "external combustion chamber" burning up fuel to heat up water in a closed loop, generating electricity.

The advantages to the military are that the robot would be extremely flexible in fuel sources and could roam on its own for months, even years, without having to be refueled or serviced.



Upon the EATR platform, the Pentagon could build all sorts of things — a transport, an ambulance, a communications center, even a mobile gunship.

In press materials, Robotic Technology presents EATR as an essentially benign artificial creature that fills its belly through "foraging," despite the obvious military purpose.

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EATR Terminator Bot sanitized for Their protection

• Click here for a brief description of EATR at the Robotic Technology Web site.
www.robotictechnologyinc.com/index.php/EATR

• Click here for a much longer overview of the project in PDF format.
www.robotictechnologyinc.com/images/upload/file/Presentation%20EATR%20
Brief%20Overview%206%20April%2009.pdf

• Click here to read about the Cyclone Waste Heat Engine.
www.cyclonepower.com/works.html

HUMANOID AND LEGGED HUNTER KILLER ROBOTS
www.robotictechnologyinc.com/index.php/robots

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Originally posted by Fremdfirma:
...Also the local geek farm folks caught someone else's dragonfly bot recently, and another one about the size of a largish mosquito or mosquito hunter, maybe 1-1/4" across the "wings", recently, and are dissecting them with interest.

Whether it's other geeks, corpies, or Gov, we do not know, but they're working on a detection system we can sell to paranoids and corporations fearful of corp-espionage at the current time.

As for how to catch em, that little short range 4 shot HERF weapon they built off a stungun battery plucks em right outta the sky
-plans are now available online if you dig in the right places.

Happy hunting.

-F

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