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Researchers at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory in the U.K. are developing urine-powered EcoBots that run on microbial fuel cells modeled after the heart. They described their technology in the Nov. 8 issue of Bioinspiration and Biomemetics. Here is a demonstration of the fuel cell converting urine into electricity to charge a mobile phone.

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