Robot Has A Human-Like Digestive System
July 22, 2010
Researchers at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory, UK have created a self-sustaining robot with an artificial gut to allow it to power itself by eating and excreting. The Ecobot III eats partially processed sewage and uses its nutrients as fuel and excretes the rest, while also drinking water to continuously generate power.
Uh, if you can generate power from pooping why not create a similar system that can be installed in home sewer systems. That way we can use the generated power to reduce our energy costs. Maybe we could install this system in hybrid cars.
I can only imagine the workplace implications of people pooping in public......
*gets out the brain bleach*
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Sat 31 Jul, 2010 03:54 pm
I used to work with ****. That was a hard two months when I manned (er, womaned) the parasitology lab in my training days. Little cartons of patients' shits awaiting on the clinic dummy ('dumb waiter') when I showed up at 7:30 a.m.
What a way to wake up...
There are proscriptives - I'm guessing, but am fairly confident about - composting human excretion. Or, am I wrong? I know there are new fangled smart toilets out there, which I've read about and forget the details of.
I also have noted batches of articles about using cattle manure.