Charged Up

A Maryland company under contract to the Pentagon is working to create a robot that eats dead bodies. It’s true. Robotic Technology Inc. is building a steam-powered robot that would fuel itself by gobbling up whatever organic material it can find – grass, wood, old furniture, even dead bodies.

They call it EATR, Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot. The company’s Web site states, EATR “can find, ingest, and extract energy from biomass in the environment (and other organically-based energy sources), as well as use conventional and alternative fuels (such as gasoline, heavy fuel, kerosene, diesel, propane, coal, cooking oil, and solar) when suitable.”

[Fox News]

Astonishingly, despite such a reputable news outlet saying “It’s true”, actually it’s not true. In fact it’s bollocks.

[Update: Fox have revised their story]