Wednesday, September 22, 2004
Posted by Roberto
10:35 PM
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PREDATORY ROBOTICS
To survive without human help, a robot needs to be able to generate its own energy. So Chris Melhuish and his team of robotics experts at the University of the West of England in Bristol are developing a robot that catches flies and digests them in a special reactor cell that generates electricity.
The robot's energy source is the sugar in the polysaccharide called chitin that makes up a fly's exoskeleton. Ecobot II traveled for five days on just eight fat flies at a top speed of 10 centimetres per hour.
NewScientist.com Article
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