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Company Denies its Robots Feed on the Dead
- sachinag 17y agoYeah, I'd like to see them get a cadaver and prove that their robots don't feast on the dead. I don't trust a corporation farther than I can throw it. And I can only throw a dead body about four feet.
- lallysingh 17y agoThis is pretty much the best press release I've ever seen in my life. On a much less apocalyptic note, there is some great lawnbot potential here. A robot that cuts your grass and eats it for fuel sounds pretty good to me.
- kirubakaran 17y agoYou mean like a goat, that also gives you milk and love?
- Janzert 17y agoDon't forget the distinctive odor that allows you to tell if you have arrived near that love, even in complete darkness. Of course if the new biomass engine does not lack this feature it probably ruins it for any covert use.
- vaksel 17y agoGoat won't eat the grass uniformly. So you won't have a nice looking lawn. + unless you have a mansion with a huge lawn the goat will starve after a few months.
- Devilboy 17y agoApparently you can rent goats for this purpose http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/mowing-with-goats.html http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/mowing-with-goats.htm...
- tomjen 17y agoChickens are better for that purposes, since their excrements are some of the best fertilizer around. They also smell better than the goat.
- ErrantX 17y agothey have an annoying tendancy to destroy/tear up the grass though.
- mseebach 17y agoYou'll want to leave the grass-clippings in the lawn for fertilisation. Sure, you could add fertilizers, but then why not just give the lawn bot a place to plug-in (like a Roomba) instead? It's easier and I'm pretty sure it's cheaper, also. Also, I'm not sure the world is ready for autonomous robots with blades. Imagine it foraging onto the neighbouring lawn, prompting the interest of a 4-year old... ugh.
- dpifke 17y agoBest quote ever: "We completely understand the public’s concern about futuristic robots feeding on the human population, but that is not our mission," stated Harry Schoell, Cyclone’s CEO
- dave_au 17y agoThen who's mission is it?
- dkokelley 17y agoHow much energy can a robot extract from biomass? I remember hearing about a similar technology a few years back, but the process didn't recover the energy used to gather it.
- trafficlight 17y agoWell, it worked in the Matrix.
- RK 17y agoHow bout SlugBot, that runs on the garden slugs it catches? (from Wired 2001): http://www.wired.com/gadgets/miscellaneous/news/2001/10/47156 http://www.wired.com/gadgets/miscellaneous/news/2001/10/4715...
- aarongough 17y agoWow. I hadn't seen that before... That is actually quite scary!
- tjic 17y agoI note that iRobot, Boston Dynamics and other robotics firms have not yet denied that their robots feed on the dead. What are they hiding?
- mattmaroon 17y agoPlants are a gateway biomass. One minute you're snacking on some grass clippings, then before you know it you're eating whole families alive.