At this point, robotic vacuum sweepers, singing androids and mechanical dogs are
old hat. But British inventors Jimmy Loizeau and James Auger have made a
quantum leap with the Carnivorous Domestic Entertainment Robot, an
automaton that would stalk and devour mice and insects, and then eat
them and digest their bodies to produce its own power.
They've come up with five different concepts, including the mousetrap
coffee table robot, which is designed to lure unwary vermin onto its
surface, which contains a trap door triggered by motion sensors. Rodent
victims trapped by the device would be chemically dismantled and fed to a
microbial fuel cell.
A light on the side of the device would inform the owner of how much
energy is being produced by the auto-extermination. Other configurations
include the Lampshade Robot, which would lure flies and moths to their
doom, a Cobweb Robot that would trick spiders into weaving webs and then
extract and feed them into its fuel cell, and the Flypaper Robotic
Clock .
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