Comments on: DARPA Funds Flesh Eating EATR Robot

By: endymi0n

endymi0n — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:45:35 +0000

Thanks for writing us Mr. Govers. I assumed it would just use plant material for fuel. I used a little Sci-Fi drama in the post. Best of luck to you.

By: Francis Govers

Francis Govers — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 02:22:05 +0000

I'm one of the people working on EATR, and to be quite brief, EATR is designed to find and process vegetable matter only, and frankly will work best with dead leaves, twigs, and grass. It has no ability to do anything with proteins or animal matter at all. You can think of it as an electronic pack horse, that fuels itself by grazing.

There is a more information on my blog:
http://mrrobot0.blogspot.com
along with some better pictures.

By: sharonedreyer

sharonedreyer — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:46:17 +0000

The movie, Runaway with Tom Selleck, comes to mind. Even with robots to do the work, there is the human factor that these same robots will need to be repaired or captured and deactivated. This is a very interesting article. Glad I found it today. Check out my first and recently released novel, Long Journey to Rneadal. This exciting tale is a romantic action adventure in space and is more about the characters than the technology.