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newscientist.com - 6/29/2009

Gallery - Carnivorous robots eager to eat your pests - Image 1

— newscientist.com — 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 ... (more) Gallery - Carnivorous robots eager to eat your pests - ...

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hackaday.com - 6/29/2009

Carnivorous robots

— hackaday.com — 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 ... (more) Carnivorous robots

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botjunkie.com - 7/2/2009

Awesome Retro Robots Revealed In Japan

— botjunkie.com — 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 ... (more) Awesome Retro Robots Revealed In Japan

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Carnivorous robots
Hack a Day — ... 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 digestion. The other pieces include a mouse eating coffee table, a strange mechanism for stealing spider’s meals, and a lamp shade inspired by ...

LED clock munches bugs and converts carcasses into energy
DVICE Atom Feed — ... from Brit designers Jimmy Loizeau and James Auger. Part flycatcher, part timepiece, the gizmo harvests insects on a sticky roller covered in flypaper, before dropping the corpses into a microbial fuel cell. The dead bug is then digested by the bacteria within, and the chemical changes are used by the cell to power the clock. Simple, huh? Well, simple if your mind moves in mysterious ways, I suppose. There's a close-up for fans of six-legged snuff porn below. New Scientist Via Engadget

Fly-Powered Gadgets Indulge Your Small-Scale Supervillain Fantasies [Robots]
Gizmodo — ... to produce electricity by 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] ...