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Robots eating insects to power themselves…

Robots eating insects to power themselves…

By Filip on Friday, December 31st, 2004 at 8:20 am.

CNN has a very intriguing article about robots that don’t required batteries. Instead, they power themselves by eating houseflies. Is this the next step toward the Matrix’s vision where humans are bread in fields as futuristic power sources?

www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/12/27/explorers.ecobot/index.html

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