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Incredible pooping robot

Started by BabylonHoruv, July 23, 2010, 06:37:31 AM

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BabylonHoruv

July 23, 2010, 06:37:31 AM
http://www.physorg.com/news198817988.html

It doesn't look like it really does anything yet, but it is a neat concept.  And you have to love the idea of a robot that poops.
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July 23, 2010, 07:42:33 PM
IT EATS SHIT

IT'S A SHIT-EATING ROBOT

OH MY GOD, FUTURE, I LOVE YOU!
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

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July 23, 2010, 07:51:25 PM
Look out Roomba.  :lulz:

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July 24, 2010, 12:15:21 AM
I love it!  The fact that it's a robot that poops isn't even the coolest thing about it - it eats sewage to power a hydrogen fuel cell.  It is a self-propelled artificial intestine.

QuoteDirector of Bristol Robotics Laboratory, Chris Melhuish, said microbial fuel cells had been tried before but an artificial gut was needed to solve the problem of previous models, which was that humans had to clean up the waste left by bacterial digestion. Melhuish said the robot was called Ecobot III, but admitted "diarrhea-bot would be more appropriate, as it's not exactly knocking out rabbit pellets."
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