Is it just the Grumpy Vegan who read today’s report in The Guardian, Flesh-eating robots turn vegetarian, with irony that was never intended?
Apparently, the U.S. military in conjunction with a commercial company is developing an “unstoppable military robot that powered itself on everything in its path” but not, as it turns, on “dead bodies.”
We are focused on demonstrating that our engines can create usable, green power from plentiful, renewable plant matter.
In other words, Go Vegan!
The commercial applications alone for this earth-friendly energy solution are enormous.
Again. Go Vegan.
US officials hope the steam-powered engine can be used by the military to create a self-sufficient robot that could survive on its own for months at a time.
Didn’t you hear me? Go vegan.
The early version of Eatr runs on twigs, wood chips and other plant-based material. This is fed into an engine that burns it and uses it to create propulsion.
Sigh. Go vegan.
Another of the robot’s inventors, Dr Robert Finkelstein of Robotic Technology Inc (RTI), said that Eatr had built-in systems that would help it determine whether material that it ingested was animal, vegetable or mineral.
Yes, yawn, go vegan.
“If it’s not on the menu, it’s not going to eat it,” Finkelstein told Fox News.
Not unless it’s vegan!
Eatr can also use more conventional fuels, such as petrol, diesel or cooking oil, to keep going. But the group reiterated that it would be illegal to create a robot that used dead bodies for energy.
Whose dead bodies?
