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POMPANO BEACH, Fla.– In response to rumors circulating the internet on sites such asFoxNews.com, FastCompany.com and CNET News about a “flesh eating” robotproject, CyclonePower Technologies Inc. (Pink Sheets:CYPW) and RoboticTechnology Inc. (RTI) would like to set the record straight: Thisrobot is strictly vegetarian.

On July 7, Cyclone announced that it had completed the first stage ofdevelopment for a beta biomass engine system used to power RTI’sEnergetically Autonomous Tactical Robot (EATR™), a Phase II SBIR projectsponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA),Defense Sciences Office. RTI’s EATR is an autonomous robotic platform able to perform long-range,long-endurance missions without the need for manual or conventionalre-fueling.

RTI’s patent pending robotic system will be able to find, ingest andextract energy from biomass in the environment. Despite thefar-reaching reports that this includes “human bodies,” the public canbe assured that the engine Cyclone has developed to power the EATR runson fuel no scarier than twigs, grass clippings and wood chips – small,plant-based items for which RTI’s robotic technology is designed toforage. Desecration of the dead is a war crime under Article15 of the Geneva Conventions, and is certainly not somethingsanctioned by DARPA, Cyclone or RTI.

“We completely understand the public’s concern about futuristic robotsfeeding on the human population, but that is not our mission,” statedHarry Schoell, Cyclone’s CEO. “We are focused on demonstrating that ourengines can create usable, green power from plentiful, renewableplant matter. The commercial applications alone for this earth-friendly energy solution are enormous.” (emphasis in the original)

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