Robot Eats Flies To Make Power

[matcom]

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A ROBOT that will generate its own power by eating flies is being developed by British scientists.

The idea is to produce electricity by catching flies and digesting them in special fuel cells that will break down sugar in the insects' skeletons and release electrons that will drive an electric current.

"Called EcoBot II, the robot is part of a drive to make 'release and forget' robots that can be sent into dangerous or inhospitable areas to carry our remote industrial or military monitoring of, say, temperature or toxic gas concentrations," New Scientist reported yesterday.

The team which developed the robot have to manually feed the flies to EcoBot II because they are still designing some type of pump to suck the insects into it.

http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,10712762%255E13762,00.html

[jus_the_facts]

1. they need to eat SKEETERS too.......

.....G'mornin' babe!! :* :loveya:

[Spinzonner]

2. The industrial sized model will eat Horse Flies

[underpants]

3. Prequel to "The Terminator"?

"The Matrix"?