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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Unfortunately, it's not true.

The EATR was programmed to consume certain types of vegetation as biomass to convert into fuel, and only those types of vegetation. EATR could also use other fuels such as gasoline, kerosene, cooking oil, or solar energy.

Cyclone Power Technologies stated that animal or human biomass was not intended to be used in the waste heat combustion engine of the robot,[4] and that sensors would be able to distinguish foraged materials,[2] although the project overview from RTI listed other sources including chicken fat.[5]

Also, this is from 2009.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

And I assume the image is an unrelated demonstrating a rescue operation

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