Digesting ducks and stomach robots

Digesting Duck of Jacques de Vaucanson

Gastrobots and fantasies 

Gastrobots or "stomach robots" or robots that eat normal food are interesting tools. Their origin is in the Digesting Duck of Jacques de Vaucanson (1709-1782). 

In some military visions, the "Digesting Duck" would equip with the plastic explosive wire that it can deliver after it. That means the robot would walk into the yard and leave the wire of plastic explosives after it. And then the operators must just push the detonator. 

There is created the version of that robot that drinks alcohol or gasoline. That means the system needs only refueling sometimes. There is introduced a system that uses compost. In that model, the robot eats normal food that is rotting in the chamber. That process creates methane. And that robot uses methane in its fuel cells. 

There is the possibility that an alcohol-using robot is also using bioreactors for making their fuel. The hive, sugar, and starch are turning 96% alcohol. That alcohol can use as fuel. 

But there is the possibility that the alimentary canal would install the "gastro-robot". There is a lot of rotten food. And the robot is easy to put into the alimentary channel. The robot's core can create by using silicone. And that makes the system can move in the stomach by using the remote control or independent control. 

And the robot tapeworm can take the food for its compost and that food can make methane inside the robot. The robot can also use the stomach acids for making electricity for that system. This kind of system can for removing tumors from the intestines. 

Cover art from Finnish translation of "Hardwired". (Pinterest)

The gastro-robot played a big role in the cyberpunk novel Hardwired. 

In that fictional book, there is the gastro-robot. Inside the body of one character. In that novel, the gastro-robot was the assassination tool. When the system locates the target. The gastro-robot will come out from the throat and then it destroys the veins of the victim. The thing is that this kind of system can operate by using implanted microchips. 

Or it can take its commands from the microchips that are in contact lenses or inside the eye. When the targeted person is in the right range. That face recognition would activate the attack program. The fact is that this kind of technology exists. And when we are making things like intelligent lenses that can communicate with other microchips. That system can also use for evil. In that novel, nobody told the person about that system. And that is the risk of the high-tech tools. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digesting_Duck

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastrobot

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_de_Vaucanson

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Could the Loch Ness monster be the mechanical robot or "automaton"?

When we think about the Loch Ness monster we always think that this character is some kind of hybrid animal. Or escaped python or anaconda could be the thing called Loch Ness monster. 

There is the possibility that the Loch Ness monster is a so-called automaton or mechanical robot. 

But there is one thing that is forgotten. The "Loch Ness" monster can be the mechanical robot. Maybe that thing used hole bands for controlling its prollers. And the control system might base the hole band that is traveling through switches. 

There is the possibility that the Loch Ness monster was some kind of robot submarine that might be covered by using the skin of a small whale or seal. The system could use similar technology with Vaucanson's "Digesting duck", which image is above this text. In that model that is in the image has feet. But using paddle wheels, the system could be easier to make.

In that case, the "monster" could have paddle wheels. That operates like the wheels of "Digesting duck". But it can also have propellers. There is the possibility that this kind of robot would use simple propellers for traveling surface and undersea elements. 

When the switch came to the point of the hole. That thing will close the circuit. Maybe that thing turned the rudder. Or the "monster" used electric engines. And two propellers. When another propeller will stop that thing can turn the robot. There could also be the plates that are turning out from the hull. When the whole band will give an order to turn that machine. 

The fact is that. Provenly first mechanical robots were built by Jacques de Vaucanson (1709-1782) in the 18th century. There is the possibility that there was some kind of attempts to make mechanical men and horses. And Leonardo da Vinci made his plans for creating a mechanical robot. If that thing was created Leonardo would be the inventor of robots. But there might be people before him who tried to make mechanical men. 

Making a water operating robot is easier than making mechanical men. There is needed only propellers, engine and system that turns the machine. The robot can have the shape of the water animals like sharks, whales, or seals. There could be holes in the skin of those automata, and then that system can be like a seal or whale that has propellers. 

https://www.ststworld.com/leonardos-robot/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digesting_Duck

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_de_Vaucanson

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