Company Says No 'Flesh-Eating' Ground Drones

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David_Paul Clinton, CT(Zone 6b) Jul 20, 2009

" . . . a Maryland company working on a program for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, DARPA, has the idea of giving the robots their own appetites, letting them feed on biomass as a means of fueling themselves.

But as the image of flesh-eating drones refueling off the battlefield dead has spread in recent days, Cyclone Power Technologies of Florida, the company developing the robot's engine, has issued a statement about the Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot's -- aka EATR -- diet.

It is vegetarian, the company said in a press statement . . ."

http://www.defensetech.org/archives/004936.html

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