Jonathan Rossiter: A robot that eats pollution
Jonathan Rossiter: Robot, který se živí nečistotami
Jonathan Rossiter develops soft robotic technologies and turns them into real robots and smart machines for engineers, musicians, doctors and artists. Full bio
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what a robot is, right?
and this is what we get.
lots of different types of robots,
různých robotů,
humanoid in structure.
je humanoidní.
they've got metal,
and you could hug them.
straight out of "Terminator,"
straight out of "Terminator."
mohou být přímo z „Terminátora“.
things with these robots --
dělat spoustu věcí...
at different kinds of robots --
na jiný druh robotů.
from the things that don't look like us,
které nevypadají jako my,
really cool things that we can't,
like moving around on the floor;
třeba lezou po podlaze,
and they eat our crops;
a pojídají úrodu,
characteristics in future robots
u budoucích robotů,
some really interesting problems?
vyřešili vážně zajímavé problémy?
now in the environment
v životním prostředí,
the skills and the technologies
schopnosti a technologii
to solve those problems.
at two environmental problems.
with the environment
with the pressure of population.
of population around the world
to produce more and more crops.
stále větší úrodu.
chemicals onto the land.
stále více chemikálií.
nitrates, pesticides --
that encourage the growth of the crops,
které podporují růst úrody,
if you put lots of fertilizer on the land,
into lakes, into rivers
of these chemicals, these nitrates,
that will be affected by that --
tím budou ovlivněny,
it will mass produce.
se reprodukují ve velkém.
and masses of new algae.
when algae reproduces like this,
hojně množí řasy,
in the water can't survive.
that will eat the algae,
of the engines that we use,
flush their oil tanks into the sea,
vypouštějí své nádrže s naftou,
if we could treat that in some way
the oil fields have produced?
tohle znečištění, které jsme způsobili?
you see the basking shark.
so you can swim with it,
klidně můžete plavat,
collecting plankton.
chytá do ní plankton.
in its body to keep moving.
k dalšímu pohybu.
that chugs through the water
který proplouvá vodou
from other organisms.
dalšími organismy.
of a water boatman,
to push itself forward.
a odstrkuje se vpřed.
to make a new kind of robot.
k výrobě nového robota.
the water boatman as inspiration,
klešťankou velkou,
we saw right at the beginning.
kterého jsme viděli na začátku.
robots don't look like that,
roboti tak nevypadají,
anything like the others.
at the components
like the parts of any organism.
jakéhokoli organismu.
those three components,
will have those three components,
it's got two mouths.
it's got a mouth and a derriere,
like that basking shark.
and we need to treat the pollution,
a zároveň se zbavit nečistot,
called a microbial fuel cell.
čemu říkáme mikrobiální palivový článek.
and I'll lift up the fuel cell.
Takže místo baterií,
a conventional power system,
in the form of pollution,
v podobě nečistot,
like a chemical fuel cell,
chemický palivový článek,
come across in school,
take hydrogen and oxygen,
vodík a kyslík,
and you get electricity.
it was in the Apollo space missions.
už vesmírné mise Apollo ji používaly.
hydrogen on the other,
there are living microbes.
the microbes will eat that food,
the right kind of microbes,
ty správné mikroby,
to treat some of the pollution.
a použít ho k řešení znečištění.
spirits and crude oil.
how this stomach could be used
by mohl být použit
from the pollution.
through the environment,
to move through the environment
when we run the Row-bot --
hopefully you can see here
as the waste products go out.
as quickly as possible.
a to co nejdříve.
of electricity per second.
jen malé množství elektřiny.
as much energy that that uses
has done its digestion,
until it has consumed all that food.
dokud nestráví všechnu potravu.
it could take some days.
looks like this:
vypadá následovně:
doing the same thing again.
like a real organism, doesn't it?
skutečný organismus, že?
we go out, open our mouths,
we do the same thing again.
we'll have enough energy left over
I've eaten recently,"
that I've encountered,"
„Narazil jsem na tyhle věci:...“
„Tady právě teď jsem.“
saying, "This is where I am,"
that we saw before,
olejovými skvrnami,
is put your Row-bot out there,
which themselves are not biodegradable.
které nejsou rozložitelné.
things like toxic batteries.
v sobě mají toxické baterie.
their job of work,
of Row-bots you can use.
like a biological organism,
made out of plastic,
in which we use robots.
out into the environment,
nasadili deset nebo sto,
into the environment.
they're going to degrade to nothing.
in which you think about robots
jakým o robotech uvažujeme
that you can do this.
which are biodegradable.
is you can use household materials
you might be surprised.
budete se divit.
which we have at the moment,
called artificial muscles.
or they bend or they twist.
you have these artificial muscles.
artificial muscles out of jelly.
the microbial fuel cell's stomach
robot out of biodegradable materials.
z rozložitelného materiálu.
and they degrade to nothing.
bezezbytku rozloží.
in which we think about robots,
jakým o robotech přemýšlíme,
to be really creative
můžete být víc kreativní,
about what you can do with these robots.
he's not robotic, OK?
is you put it in your mouth --
it's a robot, it may not like it.
nemusí se mu to líbit.
it moves, it thinks, it twists, it bends,
kroutí se, ohýbá se,
into your intestines,
some ulcer or cancer,
something like that.
nebo něco podobného.
it's done its job of work,
in which we think about robots.
jakým přemýšlíme o robotech.
at robots that would eat pollution,
kteří se živí znečištěním,
at robots which we can eat.
které můžeme sníst.
we can do with future robots.
s budoucími roboty.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Jonathan Rossiter - RoboticistJonathan Rossiter develops soft robotic technologies and turns them into real robots and smart machines for engineers, musicians, doctors and artists.
Why you should listen
Jonathan Rossiter is Professor of Robotics at University of Bristol, and heads the Soft Robotics Group at Bristol Robotics Laboratory. His group researches soft robotics: robots and machines that go beyond conventional rigid and motorized technologies into the world of smart materials, reactive polymers biomimetics and compliant structures. Because they're soft, these robots are inherently safe for interaction with the human body and with the natural environment. They can be used to deliver new healthcare treatments, wearable and assistance devices, and human-interface technologies. They wide impact from furniture to fashion and from space systems to environmental cleanup. They can even be made biodegradable and edible.
Currently a major focus of Rossiter's work is on the development of soft robotic replacement organs for cancer and trauma sufferers and on smart "trousers" to help older people stay mobile for longer.
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