Come on, don’t act surprised. Of course someone like me, who grew up loving old science-fiction movies and Japanese anime, would feel his heart go pitter-pat at the thought of US war robots that feed on the dead:
A Maryland company under contract to the Pentagon is working on a steam-powered robot that would fuel itself by gobbling up whatever organic material it can find — grass, wood, old furniture, even dead bodies.
Robotic Technology Inc.’s Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot — that’s right, “EATR” — “can find, ingest, and extract energy from biomass in the environment (and other organically-based energy sources), as well as use conventional and alternative fuels (such as gasoline, heavy fuel, kerosene, diesel, propane, coal, cooking oil, and solar) when suitable,” reads the company’s Web site.
Now, if only they were giant war-robots….
(hat tip: Allahpundit)
A Seat By The Fire 
It’s funny, I actually saw a similar robot on a Japanese TV show not too long ago. Except it was a vacuum cleaner that had dead flies inserted in it ever so often.
Leave it to the Japanese to think of the basic idea, and the Americans to make it awesome.
I’ve seen enough anime and Japanese game shows to know that, even if we make it awesome, they’ll make it awesome and weird. 🙂