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Fly-eating robots

Exoskeletons and human excrement

         

encyclo

2:12 pm on Sep 9, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Scientists at the University of the West of England have designed a potentially autonomous robot which feeds on flies attracted by human excrement and uses them to generate electricity

[theregister.com...]

Only in England... ;)

TheDoctor

3:23 pm on Sep 9, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Just wait until the Marketing Division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation gets hold of the idea ;)

(Those who don't know what I'm talking about, follow the links on this thread [webmasterworld.com].)

mivox

8:02 pm on Sep 9, 2004 (gmt 0)

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I'm not sure I want to think about what the power plant running off those things would be like... ;)