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minus-square@Agent641link7•11 months agoDARPA once built a robot that roams around battlefields and consumes human corpses for energy. They called it EATR.
minus-squareFlying Squidlink3•edit-211 months agoIt was never literally real. But it was developed as a plausible concept. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energetically_Autonomous_Tactical_Robot It also wasn’t actually eating corpses. Supposedly.
minus-squareFlying Squidlink3•11 months agoI remember when that came out. I’m guessing they’re still secretly working on it.
minus-square@Agent641link4•11 months agoIt went rogue and ate all its designers. Currently locked in a vault with the door welded shut at Edwards air force base, it hibernates, waiting patiently for its next meal.
DARPA once built a robot that roams around battlefields and consumes human corpses for energy. They called it EATR.
This sounds far too badass to be real.
It was never literally real. But it was developed as a plausible concept.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energetically_Autonomous_Tactical_Robot
It also wasn’t actually eating corpses. Supposedly.
I remember when that came out. I’m guessing they’re still secretly working on it.
It went rogue and ate all its designers. Currently locked in a vault with the door welded shut at Edwards air force base, it hibernates, waiting patiently for its next meal.
Ted Faro works at DARPA?