Jun 29 2009Carnivorous Robots Eat Meat For Power
That's right folks, robots that consume organic matter to power themselves. Scared yet? You should be. Your pants should be full right now. If not, more fiber. This particular model is a flytrap that digests insects to power a clock.
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.
Finally, robots that digest meat -- because that's what I want in the house. So let me get this straight: you're a robot AND YOU EAT MEAT. Welcome home!
Hit the jump for another picture of the flytrap and a coffee table that eats mice.
Carnivorous robots eager to eat your pests [newscientist]
Thanks to everyone who sent this in, you've got good heads on your shoulders. Until they're blasted off in the apocalypse.
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Reader Comments
1. MechanicalApe - June 29, 2009 11:20 AM
FRIST!
2. MechanicalApe - June 29, 2009 11:23 AM
i want to see a cat eating one! muahahaha
3. naas - June 29, 2009 11:24 AM
beep bop nom nom beep beep nom nom nom AHHH EAT MY BUGS you hungry little beast
4. naas - June 29, 2009 11:25 AM
@1 http://images0.cafepress.com/product/48301830v10_350x350_Front.jpg
5. rantaboutlife - June 29, 2009 11:25 AM
What the hell! Soon they are going to have those rescue bots run off meat, then we're screwed!!!
I'm with you geekologie writer, you build the bunker, I'll get the guns.
6. STOMPY - June 29, 2009 11:28 AM
Great, it's only a matter of time before robots discover bacon, than what...
7. bethy - June 29, 2009 11:30 AM
Oh yes, I want a coffee table that encourages mice to walk accross....because nothing says "I Have a clean house" more than a mouse trap on the middle of your coffee table.....
at least it will be the dirty stupid ones that go first! Thanks for the heads up GW!
8. Gath155 - June 29, 2009 11:35 AM
It's the end of the world as we know it...
http://gath155.mybrute.com
Do it.
9. callam - June 29, 2009 11:36 AM
so whys the coffee table need energy?
im pretty sure mine just stands there running off nothing
10. Ryuzaki - June 29, 2009 11:38 AM
The only way to save us from being devoured is to make 'em all vegetarians ahah
tofu powered robot lol
11. Fitz - June 29, 2009 11:41 AM
Wouldn't want that bitch stealing my bacon!
12. naas - June 29, 2009 11:41 AM
@STOMPY - that my friend, would be a serious problem. No metalframe is touching my bacon dammit, NOOOO!!!
13. STOMPY - June 29, 2009 11:43 AM
@naas
Or worse, their human and bacon dip switches get reversed...
http://technabob.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/robot_bacon.jpg
14. naas - June 29, 2009 11:51 AM
This is why I work around powerful electromagnets, robots don't usually get too hungry after seeing a few of these things staring right into their circuitry. One flip of the switch and it's ZAP - format complete
15. Jerry - June 29, 2009 11:53 AM
Now if only something was lint and dust powered, I'd be set.
http://bootelicious.mybrute.com
16. STOMPY - June 29, 2009 11:57 AM
How about a robot that eats other robots...
17. naas - June 29, 2009 12:05 PM
CANNIBOTS! Great for warfare, terrible in the kitchen
18. Daisy - June 29, 2009 12:08 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tellits a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie NEver BAck Down where Max explains how she gets energy from the protiens that shoot out of his meat, but by depriving her of his Precious Bodily Fluids (PBF) he maintains a Purity Of Essence (POE) Later he launches a nuclear strike against russia, with the help of Darth Vader.
19. Fail - June 29, 2009 12:59 PM
Wow, dude.at two hours after posting-you get a "PHOTOSHOPPED! Nutjob. Yay, photoshop, you spawned satans children!
20. STOMPY - June 29, 2009 1:01 PM
@20
Hi noob... welcome to GW.
21. Carbon - June 29, 2009 1:08 PM
Well, there is that German car commercial of a car beheading a cat... I guess that's close enough to a cat eating piece of furniture.
>>;
22. Vegas - June 29, 2009 1:11 PM
I think I'll just keep my old fashioned fly swatter around and not worry about my coffee table eating me in my sleep because he ran out of flies.
23. naas - June 29, 2009 1:33 PM
@21 heh Does this 'meat' your seal of approval?
@22 http://www.blisstree.com/healthbolt/files/2007/12/huh.jpg
24. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - June 29, 2009 1:40 PM
This is a 9 on the creepometer.
25. Ciao - June 29, 2009 2:44 PM
well, that'll make for a terrible babysitter...
although, no more child support >:D
26. Robot - June 29, 2009 2:46 PM
Robots will rule! humans are no longer needed and my kind shall be supreme!!!
27. Anon - June 29, 2009 2:55 PM
Ohai spammer! Welcome to GW. Please, enjoy your stay!
28. Pat - June 29, 2009 3:01 PM
This is just like the Futurama episode "Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles" where Professor Farnsworth's dentures taste human flesh and then go on a biting spree.
29. gene simmons - June 29, 2009 3:15 PM
I can protect you with my bullets that go around corners.
30. Daniel Segatto - June 29, 2009 3:19 PM
Daisy went far this time, what have you smoked lady ?
31. Oliver - June 29, 2009 4:25 PM
so.... does the clock have to shit aswel?
32. kelehendros - June 29, 2009 6:03 PM
oh hey cool, but if u are what you eat and the robot eats bugs but doesnt use them to make up its body then you arent what you eat but..*FRZZZT* "logic error detected system reboot" oh hey cool good thing all the robots are obviously robots and nothing else. .> .>
33. pez dispenser - June 29, 2009 7:55 PM
ARRFGHGH ITS EATING MEEEE
34. Lenny - June 30, 2009 2:05 AM
OMG its going to kill us all IT USES MEAT FOR POWER! thats like a sure sign of killer robots. freaking robots eat meat, i eat robots those bastards...
35. Jaded Icon - June 30, 2009 6:48 AM
WHAT!?!?
How long is it going to take before I see GW put up a title "Robots discover human bacon"? We have to act now! The only way to combat this is to combine our DNA with dinosaurs. Where is a mad scientist when you need one?
36. mary-ann - June 30, 2009 7:20 AM
this is horrible! @binti, i feel srry for you that this world has become so limited where you only get crushed and crushed and crushed, makes your stomach turn wanting to eat flesh. if you want i will assist your vengeance, we will end this shet and rule! binti is actually a number, i hope no one finds out what it means.
37. OctopusShoes - June 30, 2009 1:18 PM
I can see PETA being all over these.
38. led display - July 1, 2009 11:40 AM
Tim is awesome..!!
39. luke - August 13, 2009 9:20 AM
isn't anyone afraid of it trying to eat us?!