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(URL) link is an article about a meat-eating robot at USF. Feed it slabs of beef, and e-coli in the "stomach" convert the meat into electricity to power the robot. They talk about the potential for lawnmowers that eat the clippings. Sounds like I (...) (24 years ago, 23-Jul-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) One thing just hit me (I don't know if this is the right phrase to use in sentence), when the cow eat there is some stuff that it can't process and it comes out the "natural" way, I wonder if the robot really consumes everything of that it (...) (24 years ago, 24-Jul-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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everybody poops "Harri 'Junkarn' Manni" <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> wrote in message news:Pine.LNX.4.10.1...vika.se... (...) of (...) the (...) (24 years ago, 24-Jul-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) <snip> A distinction should be made between a robot that actually eats, and a robot that is simply powered on an organic battery or fuel cell. Eating is not just the conversion of food to energy; it denotes a behavior which involves seeking (...) (24 years ago, 24-Jul-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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