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Swiss researchers want to build edible robots. So far they've developed edible batteries and other components, and say there may be a surprisingly wide range of use cases for edible robots.. (techxplore.com)
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[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 11 points 5 months ago

At least one Black Mirror suggested a dark side to this. My caveat to any solution humans try to come up with to fix problems that we created with technology is, we'll probably introduce a few new problems in doing so, and the original solution may fail at some point leaving us in even worse conditions. We have a Midas touch on things, only it's more gray goo or plasticy than gold.