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Source 1: https://www.wired.com/2009/07/military-researchers-develop-corpse-eating-robots/
Source 2: https://www.mysterious-times.com/2018/05/17/military-researchers-develop-corpse-eating-robots/
Military Researchers Develop Corpse-Eating Robots
From the file marked “Evidently, many scientists have never seen even one scary sci-fi movie”: The Defense Department is funding research into battlefield robots that power themselves by eating human corpses. What could possibly go wrong?