SPECTRUM: Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot Converts Biomass Sources into Electrical Energy

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[@XNawiXx]

You fergot to mention they explicitly mention "chicken fat" as a fuel source for the EATR in their own documents 😂

[@WaterSong432]

Right …

[@Zizzyyzz]

Wow. Lol.

[@TravisHi_YT]

Wow, this is a super weird video to be recommended 11 years after it's publication 😕

[@borntobike8276]

Literally thought the same thing and now I see it's not just me

[@mikeinkalaoa]

I was working with a new guy yesterday and he was talking about DARPA and now this popped up on my feed today

[@tengounapregunta.992]

Ouh.... Horizon zero down.

[@johnnyboy90528]

*Cybergrind music plays in the distance.*

[@user-hc5of8xk3r]

Ya gotta love DARPA !
Wish I would have found my way to that place in my life !
Working on new weird stuff is so so Cool ! 😎

[@Zoidpilot1]

This will be very interesting on the battlefield

[@JorgeGamaliel]

I want an Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot in order to clean my garden!!

[@HerbertHopkins799]

Just give it a steady diet of soylent green.

[@Mobile.recording]

Omg thats 10 years ago

[@bpdubb]

I am SO GLAD I’m on the back 9!!!

[@nebraskasunshine8862]

So how is it that there is video footage of the eater robot allegedly eating humans, even if just a demo using a dummy?

[@dentheduck2095]

Because it's the 10 y.o. video and the one you are talking about is 6 y.o.?

[@GeorgeChar95]

Ah! A robot programed for self preservation! Pretty much like KARR from knight rider.... Ok, good luck with that!

[@moycorbin4750]

10 years old and the people just realised it months ago 😅

[@HMJT818]

Holy crap this was scary af.. and it's over a decade old so.. the technology then as of right now would be....

[@LevelUpTrivia1]

Was not DARPA in Metal Gear Solid?

[@brubeck1]

there is a DARPA agent in the sci fi game vanquish.

[@ragnaroknibba6083]

they said animal and plant biomatter...

[@Obiwan7100]

And Humans

[@ikagura]

Yes, we are made of biomater.

[@ikagura]

The Darpa is real?

[@chrisfojtik7391]

Vary much so.

[@JorgeGamaliel]

Awesome!! Maybe i can use your robot in order to clean my garden. lol...well i can´t see my comment... :) :)

[@Ciskokid1970]

Karen is a Cutie ☺️

[@Ciskokid1970]

She looks like Halle Berry 🤩😻😻😻😻😊

[@Cylance-ji9tn]

The EATRs will clean the streets of all homeless ppl & their belongings at night