Friday, July 10, 2009

The steam-belching maw of progress

Robot land-steamers to consume all life on Earth as fuel





News has emerged of a milestone reached on the road towards a potentially world-changing piece of technology. We speak, of course, of US military plans to introduce roving steam-powered robots which would fuel themselves by harvesting everything alive and cramming it into their insatiable blazing furnaces.

The scheme is officially referred to as Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot (EATR™) by those behind it. It will come as no surprise to Reg readers that the funding is from DARPA, the famous Pentagon warboffinry bureau. If you're a hammer, all the problems start to look like nails: if you're DARPA, all the solutions start to look like robots.


(Hat tip to @CabinetofWonder.)

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5 comments:

Ghostwoods said...

Wow. That's, um, far-sighted of them.

I for one welcome our new hungry robot masters.

Red Pill Junkie said...

EATR? I would have called it TEAR instead. Because that mechanical Mofo is gonna tear us apart! I only hope it will be with the song of INXS as soundrack. ;_;

These scientists thinking of ways for robots to eat meat, sugar, etc. Shouldn't we be designing robots that do not compete against us for the same resources?

They should feed on plastic bags.

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