OK, I do not usually just point to another story….
But this one is just SOOO bizzare!
Apparently, someone has seriously proposed that the best way to power a new generation of military robots is to have them search their environment for ‘biomass’ which they would then collect and use as fuel. This ‘biomass’ would include human flesh…
The name?
h/t: Dvorak Uncensored
Update: ‘Switched’ has a good article on this – with a diagram and lots of links….so this is looking less and less like just a bad joke! And just in case you wondered: ‘EATR’ stands for the Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot…
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