Robots create energy thanks to insects and plants

EATR - a multi-purpose automatic car belonging to the robot family - waving the leaves with its robotic arm, chewing with a tiny wire saw and bringing it into the incinerator of the steam engine that it carried to make electricity.

EATR

No matter how smart the robot is, it's reassuring that you can unplug a rebellion against their people. That's enough. A new army of robots was born, generating energy by chewing on organic substances could be the beginning of a new era of true autonomous machines.

The first batch of biomass robots was designed to deliver a series of tasks such as supervising work, detecting and removing mines, checking pipes or working in dark places where solar cells don't work. be effective .

EATR's mouth chews grass plants

Take a look at EcoBot II, a small fly-feeding machine with a child drums invented by Bristol Robotics Laboratory (UK). The engineers feed this robot with insects, digesting in biofuel batteries - a reservoir of microorganisms that waste sludge and oxygen. Thereby converting insects into electricity. A meal of only 8 flies is enough to crawl a few meters

EATR (due to the abbreviation Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot) is a military robot vehicle that removes landmines by self-energizing, consuming plants very quickly. The car was designed by Harry Schoel of the Robotics Institute in Washington, DC, using sensors like cameras and radars to detect edible bushes, crawling closer, grabbing, chewing small put into the combustion chamber. The small steam engine of this self-propelled robot can take whatever leaf it meets to move and every time it takes 70kg of leaves, it goes 100 miles. Both design teams Ecorobot and EATR use software to help robots store energy during periods of inactivity and in 2011 will organize mass production.

The EATRs are looking for food.

Those who worry that self-propelled robotic machines with wire-saw blades in their mouths will clean up plants or catch cattle and . children eating meat can be assured. Manufacturing designers said that the installation program for them has limited food according to the color and taste of plants. They do not eat candy even if they take it to the place because they do not consider it their food. Nor are they afraid of chasing cattle as a predator. Those 'delicious' foods are outside the software program.