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A Robot that eats pollution (Pollution Problem, How the robot was…
A Robot that eats pollution
Pollution
Problem
How the robot was inspired by animals
How the robot works and what does it do
Different possibilities for these types of robots
Overpopulation lead to an increase on the amount of food produced. How do farmers do that? Through chemicals that increase the growth in the lands. Some of these chemicals go into the water table ending up in oceans/seas. These chemicals increase the growth of sea algaes reducing the level of oxygen in the water that makes other organism die.
Second problem we deal with is oil pollution. Oil is released in the seas that harms organisms that live in them.
Idea of inventing robots that eat these types of pollution. How do we accomplish this idea?
Searching on google we realize that people usually think that robots have to be humanized and have to reflect on how and what we are.
To accomplish the objective of eating pollution he inspired from two animals: the basking shark and the water boatman. He was inspired from the basking shark in the way that it feeds himself, he opens and uses his huge mouth to collect and eat the plankton. He was also inspired from the water boatman on how it moves on the surface of the water.Putting these to characteristics together he creates the "Row-bot".
It's made out of three parts: head, body and stomach.
The body is made out of plastic and it floats on the water surface with floating bubbles and moves with paddles. It has two mouth one to insert the water to clean and one to get rid of the water that it has cleaned. It combines the qualities of the two different animals.
The stomach is composed by a microbial fuel cell that contains living microbes that eat whatever their nature makes them eat. In this particular robot it makes them eat algae or oil. By eating these materials it produces energy (the process of producing it is very long and could take hours/days) that is sent to the brain that makes it move and eat more pollution creating a cycle.
Since the Row-bot isn't biodegradable and contains toxic materials, after it sends the the position information it needs to be recollect limitating the number of robots that can be used. Idea of making robots similar to living organisms that when they're finished working they decompose.
What if we used biodegradable materials like artificial muscles made out of jelly? This would give an opportunity on producing more row-bots without thinking on getting them back.
If we can eat jelly, can we make robots biodegradable that can be inserted in our bodies? Can we make robots that eat or heal harmful things in our bodies (cancer, ulcer ect.)?
Jonathan, Rossiter. "A Robot That Eats Pollution."
TED
, March 2016,
https://www.ted.com/talks/jonathan_rossiter_a_robot_that_eats_pollution
