> >"I did, I did, I dropped it 8 secon........."
> >
> >Rat-tat-tat-tat-blam-blam-blam-kaboom-kaboom-whirr-clunk
> >
> >http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_904000/904619.stm
> >
>
> Robo-cop - right?
>

Yessum, no one messes with OCP. Have to admire Mr.Sooraksa's
enthusiasm and optimism, but you know these things are all jolly
good fun until a 10 ton out-of-control metal maniac hurts someone

A little something from "Small Soldiers" would be nice for scaring
the tripes out of the cat. And it could pick them up too. Handing them
back to the cat could be at robot's discretion, just to make it interesting

One of the four other good stories on that page is about a robot that
powers itself from the slugs it kills (which sounds gruesome but is just
what we do for energy, hunting and trapping cheese sandwiches and
a cuppa at 2am)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_503000/503149.stm

Now that could be an answer to powering a sea-borne robot ship as
discussed a few weeks back. It could catch its own micro-organisms
to make bio-gas

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