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RTI Inc. seeks to built robot that will forage and "eat" for energy
- GiraffeNecktie 17y ago"It can find, ingest, and extract energy from biomass in the environment". Excuse me while I haul my skinny biomass out of the path of that advancing robot.
- anigbrowl 17y agoSpatially locate and manipulate the sources of energy (e.g., cut or shred to size, grasp, lift, and ingest) Supportive though I am of the technological goals, their overview documents are a conspiracy theorist's wet dream (chainsaws? scary robotic heads? angry-looking tree-eating robots?!). Someone needs to give their marketing people free tickets to the upcoming Terminator movie and explain that most of the audience are there to root for the human character. I, on the other hand...