hackaday.com - 6/29/2009
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Artists [James Auger] and [Jimmy Loizeau] have put out this display of carnivorous robots . Pictured above is a clock that is powered by a microbial fuel cell. The clock is equipped with a scroll of sticky paper for catching the flies which it then scrapes into it’s cell for ...
newscientist.com - 6/26/2009
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Flypaper robotic clock - detail At the base
of the roller, a scraper removes any captured insects....
They fall into the microbial fuel cell beneath, where bacteria digest the fly and cause chemical changes that the cell can extract power from. The ...
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Gallery - Carnivorous robots eager to eat your pests - ...
newscientist.com - 6/29/2009
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UK-based designers James Auger and Jimmy Loizeau believe
that, if robots are ever to be welcomed into...
people's homes, they'll need to fit in with the rest of the furniture, and earn their keep. Their prototypes trap and digest pests like flies and ...
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Gallery - Carnivorous robots eager to eat your pests - ...
botjunkie.com - 7/2/2009
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Writing by Evan Ackerman on Wednesday, 1 of
July , 2009 at 9:24 am Retro Robots I...
don’t speak any Japanese, so unfortunately I’ve only been able to understand little snippets of information, but according to an article on Robot Watch, an autonomy of ...
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Awesome Retro Robots Revealed In Japan
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Carnivorous Clock eats bugs, begins doomsday countdown
Engadget —
... its roller system before depositing them into a vat of bacteria. The ensuing chemical reaction, or "digestion," is transformed into power that keeps the rollers rollin' and the LCD clock ablaze. The pair offers an alternative design fueled by mice, a contraption whose robotic arm plucks insect-fuel from spider webs with the help of a video camera, and a lamp powered by insects lured to their deaths with ultraviolet LEDs. Man, this is so wrong it has to be right. [Via Hack a Day] Filed under: Household, Robots Carnivorous Clock eats bugs, ...
Fly-Powered Gadgets Indulge Your Small-Scale Supervillain Fantasies [Robots]
Gizmodo —
... processing the bodies of flies, and in one case, mice. Auger and Loizeau's unsettling apparati, including the the sticky conveyor belt clock and moth-attracting death lamp above, sound an awful lot like the basement experiments of a troubled tween chemistry enthusiast. In reality, and as evidenced by the devices' creative construction and execution, the pair are designers, and the carnivorous robots are pieces of art, not masked cries for help. [New Scientist via Hackaday via Engadget]
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That’s right, someone has actually invented a carnivorous alarm clock that works like a Venus Fly Trap. It works with a conveyor belt of ...
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