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Article Source: FOXNews.comIt could be a combination of 19th-century mechanics, 21st-century technology — and a 20th-century horror movie.
A Maryland company under contract to the Pentagon is working on a steam-powered robot that would fuel itself by gobbling up whatever organic material it can find — grass, wood, old furniture, even dead bodies.
Zombie-bots? I really do not think this is a good idea.
#1 - Thu Jul 16, 2009 8:55 AM EDTIt is absolutely not a good idea. Can you imagine having to tell a family that their loved one who died in battle that a robot ate their remains.
I cannot. I cannot imagine the military, with their much vaunted (and deserved), respect for the dead would think this is a good idea.
I can't even imagine being a soldier and coming upon one of these things feeding on the corpse of a fallen comrade. What I can imagine is blasting it to smithereens after I saw it.
Sounds real believable to me. Given today's technology why would the robot be steam powered? Come on Fox News, don't you have anything constructive for those interns to work on?
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