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Company Denies its Robots Feed on the Dead

wired.com — The most incredible press release of all time... In response to rumors circulating the internet on sites such as FoxNews.com FastCompany.com and CNET News about a “flesh eating” robot project, Cyclone Power Technologies Inc. and Robotic Technology Inc. (RTI) would like to set the record straight: This robot is strictly vegetarian...

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  • elijahyossie, on 07/18/2009, -1/+80how very..... reassuring.....
  • Ryokuchaa, on 07/18/2009, -2/+73“We completely understand the public’s concern about futuristic robots feeding on the human population, but that is not our mission,” stated Harry Schoell, Cyclone’s CEO.

    These aren't the droids you're looking for.
  • TobiasParker, on 07/18/2009, -0/+57How many CEOs dream of the day when they will get to say something like that.
  • levitron, on 07/18/2009, -0/+45Typical science-related story cycle:
    -Company comes up with amazing new technology.
    -Reporters/editors decide it's not flashy enough.
    -Reporters/editors extrapolate an aspect of the technology to an absurd end, and make that the main thrust of their article.
    -Public reacts as expected.
    -Scientists desperately try to set the record straight.
  • palehorse864, on 07/18/2009, -0/+38Soylent Green Energy
  • popzero, on 07/18/2009, -3/+3801000010 01010010 01000001 01001001 01001110 01010011 00100001
  • Cerin, on 07/18/2009, -0/+34Crap. I pre-ordered a bunch of their robots last week. Now what am I going to do with all this flesh!?
  • Headinawheel, on 07/18/2009, -0/+28It's never the mission to create flesh eating robots, it's just something that happens along the way to creating Skynet.
  • doublefelix, on 07/18/2009, -1/+24The whir of my robomower will never sound the same to me again. Brraaaaaaiiiiiii.....
  • JSager, on 07/18/2009, -1/+18In related news, Professor Farnsworth has definitively declared "There is no such thing as a were-car!"
  • NoozeHound, on 07/18/2009, -1/+18What public concern? Everyone I know has been rubbing their hands together urging Skynet and the Matrix and any other techno-horror fantasy to commence right about now.
  • RevXwise, on 07/18/2009, -0/+17Wow. I was really surprised to see this wasn't an Onion article.
  • Liability, on 07/18/2009, -0/+14The chainsaw arm is for chopping lettuce.
  • Paulish, on 07/18/2009, -0/+12Then they must feed on the living!
  • brandnewx, on 07/18/2009, -0/+12Nah once it tastes human flesh and blood, it won't be a vegetarian no more.
  • jgzman, on 07/18/2009, -2/+13I'm sorry, an autonomous military robot that can self-refuel on biomass?
    I feel the question is valid.
  • Dereliction, on 07/18/2009, -0/+11*snore* Kill all humans...Kill all humans...Must kill all hu...

    Bender, wake up!
  • VastVoodoo, on 07/19/2009, -0/+1100111002


    Just kidding, we all know there's no such thing as 2.
  • FUR10N, on 07/18/2009, -0/+10Don't worry, I'm going to build a robot that DOES feed on humans and sell it to the Russians.
  • cJw314, on 07/18/2009, -0/+10Did they REALLY have to name the ***** EATR?!

    The fact that it feeds on grass clippings gives me an idea; let the little ***** mow my lawn for me. :D
  • inactive, on 07/18/2009, -1/+11So, Skynet lies...

    Who knew?
  • Sirlolalot, on 07/18/2009, -3/+13What you mean that "News story" on Fox news wasn't true? so it aint so...
  • inactive, on 07/18/2009, -4/+1301010100 01101000 01100001 01110100 00100111 01110011 00100000 01110111 01101000 01100001 01110100 00100000 01110011 01101000 01100101 00100000 01110011 01100001 01101001 01100100
  • Petestreet, on 07/18/2009, -0/+9This is the best headline I have ever read.
  • chippyr, on 07/19/2009, -2/+1001101000 01110100 01110100 01110000 00111010 00101111 00101111 01101000 01101111 01101101 01100101 00110010 00101110 01110000 01100001 01110101 01101100 01110011 01100011 01101000 01101111 01110101 00101110 01101110 01100101 01110100 00101111 01110100 01101111 01101111 01101100 01110011 00101111 01111000 01101100 01100001 01110100 01100101 00001101 00001010 00001101 00001010 01010100 01101000 01100001 01101110 01101011 01110011 00100000 01100110 01101111 01110010 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01000010 01101001 01101110 01100001 01110010 01111001 00100000 01010100 01110010 01100001 01101110 01110011 01101100 01100001 01110100 01101111 01110010 00100001
  • Mujokan, on 07/18/2009, -0/+8I love his understated sarcasm.
  • falser, on 07/18/2009, -0/+8Instead of saying they don't eat flesh they could've just said:

    "Don't worry, we have written a Fourth Directive that prevents the robot from directly, or indirectly eating a human being."
  • inactive, on 07/18/2009, -3/+10Oh yes I feel so much safer knowing the robots that eat are vegetarians...

    Of course a hungry robot may want to try new things.... Like HUMANS!!!!

    WTH are they thinking we R dooooooomed aaaaaahhh!!!!!
  • norman619, on 07/18/2009, -1/+8They made a robot that eats vegetarians?
  • BillOrly, on 07/19/2009, -0/+7why the ***** did I just translate every one of those comments?



  • X9001, on 07/18/2009, -0/+7It would be better if you put a face in it or something
  • salinungatha, on 07/18/2009, -0/+6"Elementary chaos theory tells us that all robots eventually turn on their masters in a frenzy of biting and kicking and gnashing of the teeth. Mwhey" Prof. Frink.
  • Grahamt14, on 07/18/2009, -0/+6no no it totally doesn't feed on the dead... IT FEEDS ON THE LIVING!
  • dlan4327, on 07/18/2009, -0/+6"Zombie robots? *reassuring laughter* No, no, no. Not really... Sort of."
  • inactive, on 07/18/2009, -2/+8I wonder why they understand why WE are worried, but are not worried. hmmm....
  • charm803, on 07/18/2009, -0/+601010111 01110010 01101111 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101000 01100101 01100001 01100100 00101110
  • MindStalker, on 07/18/2009, -0/+5You know what will be hallarious. When skynet finally becomes real and it realizes all it has is a few drones in its arsenal and most of the US nuclear weapons are still on analog systems. It will also have hell of a time with manufacturing, most of the plants in the US aren't reconfirable and would have to be significantly retooled for their death machines. HAAH.
    We'd old school nuclear strike all our computerized plants (mostly in china) and just laugh at Skynet..
  • skipvt, on 07/18/2009, -0/+5Vegetarian, until it rejects it's programming and decides humans are a virus...
  • Mujokan, on 07/18/2009, -0/+5Many said I was too extreme when I first called for the annihilation of the human species, as well as some of the more cunning monkeys.

    But after living on Earth I can tell you that I am, if anything, too merciful!
  • popzero, on 07/19/2009, -0/+501000011 01110101 01110010 01101001 01101111 01110011 01101001 01110100 01111001 00101110 00101110 00101110 00100000 01010010 01100101 01110011 01101001 01110011 01110100 01100001 01101110 01100011 01100101 00100000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01100110 01110101 01110100 01101001 01101100 01100101 00101110
  • vpshockwave, on 07/18/2009, -0/+4Hallarious? Thats a first.
  • andrewh7, on 07/19/2009, -0/+401000110 01101111 01110010 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01101100 01101111 01110110 01100101 00100000 01101111 01100110 00100000 01000111 01101111 01100100 00101100 00100000 01110011 01110100 01101111 01110000 00100000 01100011 01101111 01101101 01101101 01100101 01101110 01110100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101001 01101110 00100000 01100010 01101001 01101110 01100001 01110010 01111001 00100000 01100011 01101111 01100100 01100101 00101110 00100000 00100000 01001001 01110100 00100000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01110010 01100101 01100001 01101100 01101100 01111001 00100000 01100001 01101110 01101110 01101111 01111001 01101001 01101110 01100111 00101110
  • RocketGib, on 07/18/2009, -0/+4Fox News, awarded "Best in Entertainment" and "Worst in Journalism" awards for 10 consecutive years.
  • Valleye, on 07/18/2009, -1/+4He never does say that it cannot use humans for energy!
  • inactive, on 07/18/2009, -3/+6:) Dugg for BRAINS!!!! :) bring on the robo zombies
  • popzero, on 07/19/2009, -0/+301010001 00111010 00100000 01010111 01101000 01111001 00100000 01100100 01101111 00100000 01101101 01100101 01101110 00100000 01101000 01100001 01110110 01100101 00100000 01101000 01101111 01101100 01100101 01110011 00100000 01101001 01101110 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 01101001 01110010 00100000 01110000 01100101 01101110 01101001 01110011 01100101 01110011 00111111 00001101 00001010 01000001 00111010 00100000 01010100 01101111 00100000 01100111 01100101 01110100 00100000 01101111 01111000 01111001 01100111 01100101 01101110 00100000 01110100 01101111 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 01101001 01110010 00100000 01100010 01110010 01100001 01101001 01101110 01110011 00101110
  • stevgex, on 07/18/2009, -0/+3I'm really disappointed. I wanted one to keep the kids off my lawn.
  • Jlaugh, on 07/18/2009, -0/+3No just the ones who own arms factories.
  • Myztry, on 07/18/2009, -0/+3So where do they keep the robots when they aren't working? In a paddock with the cows...

    "Honey, the robots have gotten out again and are eating the vegies in the garden..."
  • TobiasParker, on 07/18/2009, -1/+4But when we die, our bodies become the grass.
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