Candidate of the Week: EATR! Darpa is leading the way in HEP technology!

A company that is working with DARPA is developing on a proof of concept robot that uses bio-mass as fuel. That is right, it eats! Now, if you have read our mission statement you know where this is going....

Before we get too deep into the potential of this machine, lets talk about what the plan is. Robot Technology Inc.'s Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot or ( he he, wait for it) E.A.T.R. ( we are not making this up) is designed to run on anything that will burn but, especially organic material including vegetation, wood, old furniture and animals. E.A.T.R. could change the landscape of warfare as we could unleash our carnivorous bots into a theater of war to consume our enemies. Save bullets, eat people.

But weapons are not really why we are here. While cool, we are here it save the Earth by utilizing hippies. The true beauty of the E.A.T.R. is not the bot platform itself, which is really just speculation at this point but the engine. We have a real contender for our first actual Hippie Engine.

The Cyclone Engine, developed by Cyclone Power Technologies is a self contained, steam driving external combustion engine, capable of 850 ft/lbs of starting torque! Fuel is burned in a centrifugal combustion chamber that super heats water which expands to power a radial piston set-up. What is really cool is that the water is in a closed loop so there is no need to add water like ye-olde steam trains. CPT has tested many different fuels from diesel to orange peels and this thing burns anything, ANYTHING!

So what have we learned kiddies? Well, if all goes as planned, hippies really can save the world, by POWERING THE FUTURE! Or getting shoved down a E.A.T.R.'s gullet during a peace rally. Either way I think I am going to buy some tech stock.

Via: Fox News

UPDATE: So apparently RTI was not as enthusiastic about the people eating properties of the E.A.T.R. as we were. After the media blitz last week, they released a statement that says E.A.T.R is strictly vegetarian. That's right, the potential hippie engine is a hippie itself! While a setback, it isn't something that a little tinkering can't fix. Once E.A.T.R. gets a taste of hippie, I don't think tofu will cut it.