Domestic robots with a taste for flesh

Read more at http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17372-gallery-domestic-robots-with-a-ta.... Futuristic-looking robots like Honda's sleek humanoid Asimo don't cut it for designer James Auger, at the Royal College of Art, London. Believing that they need to fit unobtrusively into the home, he has built robotic furniture. And, believing they need to be useful and entertaining, he has given the furniture an appetite for vermin, like mice and flies.

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[chawk111]

My computer is being powered by a slowly digesting dog.

[kaduisaui]

Can you make it big enough to catch politicians?

[minesajd]

A cheaper alternative to the mouse eating table. a cat.

[inv1e]

Just wondered who the fuck would have a problem with mice and flies if he could afford that kind of technology :| waste of time and effort

[jtfunkymojo]

THE MATRIX

[FutureLaugh]

what psychopath is implanting the idea of ingestng life animals for fuel? why not garbage or plant matter or shit or anything else? this is the first step towards a self replicating robot eating human beings

[islagkage15963]

@TheGreatSeraphim exept the other way around so it uses power and generates poop

[uwillnevernoewhoiam]

wow, im pretty sure when robots take over the world theyre gonna use this technology to power themselves, and were gonna b the pests thanks alot guys -___-

[airsoftgunner10]

My computer is powered by bullshit and crushed dreams

[TheGreatSeraphim]

@automaticreply They already have those. S'called a Mac.