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newscientist.com - 6/29/2009
Gallery - Carnivorous robots eager to eat your pests - Image 1
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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 mice to gain energy - see video demonstrating ...
newscientist.com - 6/26/2009
Gallery - Carnivorous robots eager to eat your pests - Image 2
— newscientist.com — 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 ... (more) Gallery - Carnivorous robots eager to eat your pests - ...

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Carnivorous robots
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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Engadget:  Carnivorous Clock eats bugs, begins doomsday countdown

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Carnivorous Clock eats bugs, begins doomsday countdown
Engadget — ... It's not enough that humans gave robots a place to congregate to plan our demise, now we've adapted them with the ability to extract fuel from the very nectar of life. All that innocent experimentation with fuel cells that run on blood has led to this, a ...

Weird Tech: Flesh-eating clock has a taste for flies
Techradar - All the latest technology news — ... The unique prototype fuels itself by feasting on household pests such as flies and insects, and heralds a bizarre new tack for timepiece tech. ...

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