Upcoming Military Robot Could Feed on Dead Bodies
A military robot that could feed on dead bodies? What could go wrong there? Insert your own "jacked into the matrix" jokes here. Thanks to darthkab, Harry McAlpin, Allan Harris and everyone else that sent this in (and are now subsequently on the governments "fuel" list).
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.