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'The Matrix' Fulfilled: Robots to Use Biomatter as Fuel

switched.com — The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), a research and development organization for the Department of Defense, aims to "maintain the technological superiority of the U.S military." They seek to accomplish this goal by developing robots, lasers, spacecraft, and other awesome futuristic weapons of annihilation.

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  • moskrin, on 07/10/2009, -2/+24I, for one, welcome our new human-devouring robot overlords
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  • AmyVernon, on 07/10/2009, -1/+11SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!
  • inactive, on 07/10/2009, -0/+10so if this thing eats solid matter, does that mean it has to take a ***** when the "fuel" is spent? robots that ***** would be awesome.
  • BaddBrainz, on 07/09/2009, -0/+9Blue pill or red pill? It's a tough choice...
  • thejackyl, on 07/10/2009, -0/+8***** FINALLY. I'm sick of waiting around for the damn apocalypse.
  • CB810, on 07/09/2009, -0/+8Robots and Spacecraft and Lasers... OH MY!
  • Kurando, on 07/10/2009, -0/+7The key to chess is to never let your opponent see your pieces...
  • beepthegeek, on 07/10/2009, -0/+5revolution
  • PaleoDigger, on 07/10/2009, -0/+5Or would the title be:

    Spent Carcinogen Administration Technicians (SCAT)
  • hadiz, on 07/10/2009, -0/+5Is DARPA Chief Donald Anderson involved?
  • ConfirmedCynic, on 07/10/2009, -0/+4They're like metal zombies!
  • bencefeher, on 07/10/2009, -0/+4I work at the National Robotics Engineering Consortium (NREC) in Pittsburgh, PA. There are projects like this all over the place here! Almost every robot here from friendly helper to people killer uses SICK ladar, nice to see them mentioned by name.

    (It's actually illegal for me take pics though, :[ military stuff.)
  • FitteMas, on 07/11/2009, -0/+4they will fall like a house of cards. check mate
  • Jeebugorn, on 07/10/2009, -1/+5was just talking about The Matrix at dinner. such a shame that they never made any sequels to that movie.
  • inactive, on 07/10/2009, -0/+4there goes the neighborhood
  • RiperSnifle, on 07/11/2009, -0/+3Hope you're enjoying your moss and fungus. That's what people who live in caves eat, right?
  • N01SE, on 07/10/2009, -0/+3did anyone else notice the chainsaw on it's arm? America...***** Yeeeaaahh!
  • PaleoDigger, on 07/10/2009, -0/+3And if so, are they going to make a "sweeper robot" to clean up later.....or is that the new job opportunity for the human race, working as "Robot Spent Fuel Disposal Engineers"? :)
  • OrangeBob, on 07/11/2009, -0/+3Yeah, such a shame. It would have been really awesome if they had made it into a trilogy or something. Oh well...
  • specter13, on 07/10/2009, -0/+3So how long till we have the robot revolutions and we get our asses handed to us.
  • funkywood, on 07/11/2009, -0/+3Yeah, like the pic in the article. Who'd have thought designing an organic matter driven robot was so simple?
  • Jektal, on 07/10/2009, -0/+3Yeah, but I'm prepared for zombies, not robots!

    Can we buy EMP grenades yet?
  • azizrulez, on 07/10/2009, -0/+2DARPA needs to see the Matrix again i think.
  • Bleue, on 07/10/2009, -0/+2Umm, FTA:
    'Designed for long-range missions, it refuels itself by devouring any fossil fuels or biological matter in its path.'

    So this thing can use anything that burns for fuel. Seems to me this is a long long looooooong way away from using electricity generated by human bodies as a power source. I mean, any wood burning oven can 'use biomater as fuel'.
  • appleseed1234, on 07/10/2009, -1/+3How about the technological superiority of the country as a whole? So that people can, I don't know, envy our lifestyle, continue to immigrate, and maintaining funded for this bloated beast we call the military industrial complex?
  • topcat5, on 07/10/2009, -0/+2Nah, R2D2 will come along and shut it all down.
  • EllimistX, on 07/10/2009, -0/+2Nah, heard he had a heart attack on his last trip to Alaska...
  • J3ff3ryD, on 07/10/2009, -1/+3Lol i wonder if you will be spared if you can do "The Robot" really really really well? I've been practicing...
  • Mujokan, on 07/10/2009, -0/+2Just to be a pedant, the Matrix makes no sense. You release energy breaking down order, not by maintaining it...
  • EllimistX, on 07/10/2009, -0/+2Do you hear a whooshing sound?
  • skipvt, on 07/10/2009, -0/+2And by biomatter they mean feces...
  • roseap, on 07/10/2009, -0/+2what's the worst that could happen?
  • IamNomad, on 07/12/2009, -0/+2That was Al Gore
  • slashdotordigg, on 07/10/2009, -0/+2I will fight for the Zion!!! Get me out of here!!
  • Jektal, on 07/10/2009, -0/+2Either that or the Robot Boogie. Yes, two kinds of dance.
  • RiperSnifle, on 07/11/2009, -0/+2Didn't DARPA, like, invent the internet?
  • MasterAmerica, on 07/10/2009, -0/+2When will people stop using MS Paint for schematics?
  • Jeebugorn, on 07/11/2009, -0/+2for real. think it woulda made a great triolgy.
  • RiperSnifle, on 07/11/2009, -0/+2Guns of the Patriots indeed.
  • PenisBreath, on 07/10/2009, -0/+2Did anyone else see the comments on that page?
  • ajsatx, on 07/10/2009, -0/+1This is Snake. Do you read me, Otacon?
  • rmxz, on 07/10/2009, -0/+1Yeah - I'd have been more satisfied with the excuse if the robots had figured out how to use people's brains as CPUs to run simulations they were running about human societies.
  • LuxFestinus, on 07/10/2009, -0/+1Make one in the shape of a shark and put a laser on its head. =P
  • keppj0nes, on 07/10/2009, -0/+1not if they're ***** out your remains
  • marmotjmarmot, on 07/10/2009, -0/+1There is no spoon.
  • shedtroll, on 07/10/2009, -0/+1YOU FOOLS! THE ROBOT'S WILL TAKE OVER!
  • mac888, on 07/10/2009, -0/+1As long as the food's good and I'm ignorant, the matrix is fine with me—just call me copper top.
  • endisnighe, on 07/10/2009, -0/+1SNL Skit

    Soylent Green movie 1 Soylent Green is people aaaaaaaaaaaaaaahh

    Soylent Green movie 2 Soylent Green is people aaaaaah

    Soylent Green movie 3 Soylent Green is people WTF

    Etc

    Was hilarious
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