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Battlefield Bot Update - What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Another riff on US Military battle bots that could feed on corpses. Maybe I need to re-think my pro-technology stance and become a Luddite? John Connor RULES!!!

"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.

Robotic Technology Inc.'s Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot — that's right, "EATR" — "can find, ingest, and extract energy from biomass in the environment"

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