<![CDATA[Suburb-Eating Robots Run on Fat Reclaimed from Liposuction - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Suburb-Eating Robots Run on Fat Reclaimed from Liposuction - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Suburb-Eating Robots Run on Fat Reclaimed from Liposuction]]> @MickyK: Nah, mate, it's real, and you bastards better watchyerarse because by "outer suburbs" we mean "everywhere not 'ere" and by "fat buggers" we mean you. We figured that if we crossed a retired car-assembly robot (well, we're not making much in the way of cars anymore) with a wombat (nothin' stops a wombat - if you hit one they'll root ya ute from bonnet to boot) and pump it full of steroids and megatechnology (it's like "nano" but bloody big) built big enough to cock a leg on the Harbour Bridge, and shove it full of dropbear-cannon (they've a dropbear throwing range of 5 miles, and those bastards'll land on your back and screw your head right off), we'd have a superweapon on our hands that'd let us hold the world to ransom: make Olivia Newton John and Crocodile Dundee popular again or we give these things a noseful of testosterone and VB and a head full of rutting-wombat-images and point it at your parliament houses.

That'll bugger ya...twice...with feeling. Just ask that mad, kiwi bastard our smaller prototype dealt with.

montsnmags

]]> <![CDATA[Suburb-Eating Robots Run on Fat Reclaimed from Liposuction]]> April Fools! Right? ....Right?

It just seem like an idea from a cartoon or something

MickyK

]]> <![CDATA[Suburb-Eating Robots Run on Fat Reclaimed from Liposuction]]> @Epaminondas:

If we could set it up so that the people can get fat off the planted woodlands, it would be a perfect little ecosystem. Like those mini-biospheres you can buy from the Discovery Store, only... a little bigger.

mechagrue

]]> <![CDATA[Suburb-Eating Robots Run on Fat Reclaimed from Liposuction]]> It has missles in its head. Hardcore.

Tenno

]]> <![CDATA[Suburb-Eating Robots Run on Fat Reclaimed from Liposuction]]> If we can turn liposuctioned fat into fuel, won't we want to have people get obese in order to drain them? Doesn't that negate the need for any of this in the first place?

I'm all for crushing suburbs though so don't mind me!

Epaminondas

]]> <![CDATA[Suburb-Eating Robots Run on Fat Reclaimed from Liposuction]]> @Huxleyhobbes:

But isn't that one of the great things about modern civilization? That we can engage in Swiftian satire like this? I mean only last week io9-ers were treated to a rap roast of Richard Dawkins made by creationists.

corpore-metal

]]> <![CDATA[Suburb-Eating Robots Run on Fat Reclaimed from Liposuction]]> Someone been watching too much Doctor Who

lonewolf333

]]> <![CDATA[Suburb-Eating Robots Run on Fat Reclaimed from Liposuction]]> @broomstick: No, it's a very pointed joke. And yet you never know. Those Australians are hardcore.

Annalee Newitz

]]> <![CDATA[Suburb-Eating Robots Run on Fat Reclaimed from Liposuction]]> I cannot believe this is true..

Cool design in sketchup, tho.

broomstick

]]> <![CDATA[Suburb-Eating Robots Run on Fat Reclaimed from Liposuction]]> I'm stuck in Yuppieville today. On the drive in this morning I was thinking that the Suburbs would have to culled for resources when the zombies take over. I just hate all the macMansions that block the view of the mountains and would be a safe haven for the undead when they retreat from the sun.

BlindKarma

]]> <![CDATA[Suburb-Eating Robots Run on Fat Reclaimed from Liposuction]]> I think a Great Gargant could take care of those.

Also, nanites=magic!

Seth L

]]> <![CDATA[Suburb-Eating Robots Run on Fat Reclaimed from Liposuction]]> A couple of biplanes, a few hundred feet of rope, and one spear gun, then we can play the Hoth level with these bad boys. All while it poops skinny people at us.
Sort of like Star Wars, meets Flyboys, meets Weight Watchers.

Westender

]]> <![CDATA[Suburb-Eating Robots Run on Fat Reclaimed from Liposuction]]> This of course requires an aggressive response from a 10-storey high Homer Simpson-type creature - the American retort to such blasphemous anti-hyper-consumption/ anti-mega-lazy values. I dub thee defender of western culture "Gluttonomous-the-Great'. Go forth and slay these AIBO type enviro-bots!! Yippe-Kai-yeeee [giggle-snort].

designguybrown

]]> <![CDATA[Suburb-Eating Robots Run on Fat Reclaimed from Liposuction]]> @Huxleyhobbes: Yeah, but can you do it with snappy infographics?

bluewyvern

]]> <![CDATA[Suburb-Eating Robots Run on Fat Reclaimed from Liposuction]]> I, too, can launch a tired, boring, unecessary, bigoted attack on fat people/modern civilization/mankind in general.

Mister Adequate

]]> <![CDATA[Suburb-Eating Robots Run on Fat Reclaimed from Liposuction]]> Everything about this makes me happy.

92BuickLeSabre

]]> <![CDATA[Suburb-Eating Robots Run on Fat Reclaimed from Liposuction]]> "Would you like to fill up with "Overweight", "Fat" or "Obese", sir?"

ManchuCandidate

]]> <![CDATA[Suburb-Eating Robots Run on Fat Reclaimed from Liposuction]]> Seems to have a built-in absurdist monster movie scenario. As dependence on cars decreases and the amount of fat available to the machines declines, they may have to lower their criterion for judging humans overweight. And, after all, there's a lot of fat in a human brain.

Mathmos

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