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Airicist
8th November 2013, 20:19
Bristol robotics laboratory (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?6036)

Bristol BioEnergy Centre (https://www.bristolroboticslab.com/bristol-bioenergy-centre)

EcoBot (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EcoBot) on Wikipedia

"EcoBot-III: a robot with guts (https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/91c4/ee0abc574a16b5cc505f3374d2f145afa96d.pdf)"

by Ioannis Ieropoulos, John Greenman, Chris Melhuish, Ian Horsfield
Airicist
23rd November 2013, 19:55
https://youtu.be/ooGTNpZKAZY

Eating flies robot

Uploaded on May 18, 2009


The next generation of environment friendly robots are on the way. This "predator" robot needs flies to digest in order to create energy for movement. Although the distance covered after "eating" one fly is about couple of centimeters, the technology opens new perspective to fueling our vehicles.
Airicist
31st August 2015, 03:04
Article "Self-sustaining killer robot creates a stink (https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn6366-self-sustaining-killer-robot-creates-a-stink)"

by Duncan Graham-Rowe
September 9, 2004