Robots that eat

I came across an interesting article about robots that can catch flies and digests them in a special reactor cell that generates electricity. The robot digests the flies in an array of eight microbial fuel cells (MFCs), which use bacteria to break down the sugars, releasing electrons that drive an electric current.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn6366

In the future maybe this type of fuel cell could be modified to be used in Aiko. If it could be modified to use real food, Aiko could eat with people and use the energy that she gets from the food. The ability to eat with people would make Aiko more real.

Good job Nick, for finding that video. Love it.

So what's the purpose of a portable robotic toilet?

Ok this is some thing that most people would miss, it digest organic material and turns it into electricity. Basically it's like the human digestion system. The question I have is how big does it have to be to power a larger robot? I see this as an alternate power source and if it doesn't have to be to big (say the size of a trash compacter) maybe you could dump your table scraps into it and make electricity for your home. Plus this can make it possible for your robot to have dinner with you. The only thing they need to do is get rid of the smell, I would suggest they take a look at an episode of Dirty Jobs were they eliminated the smell from a baby's diaper.
This is a good find.

Ok this is some thing that most people would miss, it digest organic material and turns it into electricity. Basically it's like the human digestion system. The question I have is how big does it have to be to power a larger robot? I see this as an alternate power source and if it doesn't have to be to big (say the size of a trash compacter) maybe you could dump your table scraps into it and make electricity for your home. Plus this can make it possible for your robot to have dinner with you. The only thing they need to do is get rid of the smell, I would suggest they take a look at an episode of Dirty Jobs were they eliminated the smell from a baby's diaper.
This is a good find.

That reminds me of Odo on Deep Space 9.
He sits down to a meal with an empty cup (an extension of his own hand), and fills it with part of his own body, so it will appear he's drinking when he's just reintroducing the two parts of his body.
If he has a real cup of coffee, he will absorb it like anyone else, but can expell it right into his cup through his fingers or something..

Yea Odo was cool, but I think of him as more of a liquid type of replicator from Star Gate SG-1.

Look at it this way if you take a bag and put some vinegar in it becomes like a stomach. Then if you put in 2 one-way doors you can some how squeeze the bag pushing the food into a large tube were the electrons could be extracted.