Recently being developed for the Pentagon is a new type of robot that can find and eat types of biomass to power its self. Poorly named the EATR, Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot, this robot could live months or years without having to be refueled because it’s capable to forage everything it needs. Although the creators claim the robot will be programmed to distinguish between human and non-human energy sources, I don’t doubt for a second that this robot could easy turn on us when it needs human flesh for it’s own survival. Worse yet, this biomass fuel source concept could be repurposed for a whole line of flesh eating robot machines; including “a transport, an ambulance, a communications center, even a mobile gunship
” – They want to make flying, machine gun wielding machines that could power themselves from human bodies. Seems like a bad idea.