Meat-Eating Robots

from the what-is-the-matrix dept

Two groups of scientists have developed "Gastrobots" -- robots that fuel themselves by converting food into electrical energy. One runs on sugar cubes, the other eats slugs. Don't believe me? Go here. One of the robots was quoted as saying that the slugs "tasted like chicken". Ok, I made that one up...

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    MrFile, Jul 19th, 2000 @ 11:09pm

    Well ummm here we go, give the robots some ideas, and see what happens, i hope the sci-fi movies are not as right about this one was they where about the communicators in startrek turning into cell phones.

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