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Message #11455
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Bumper314@aol.com
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 11:24:54 -0500
Subject: Re: lobster
> Well, maybe motors aren't the best locomotion for robots. If we are
talking
> biological, lets talk muscle wire. We could also drop the whole solar
thing
> and make a bot that would actually live off its surroundings by taking in
> pellets (proved by the own, since we dont have something to break down
grass
> or stuff like that to useable fuel) and react chemicaly with something in
the
> the bot stomach. The energy (basically making a battery out of the
stomach)
> can be used to run the bot and if and when it gets extra energy it can
charge
> up some caps (fat basically) for later use. So the goal would be to get an
> analogue robot to identify its food and consume it and move on to find
more
> food. Sounds like almost every insect to me.
>
> steve
>
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