Jonathan Rossiter: A robot that eats pollution
ג'ונתן רוסיטר: רובוט שאוכל זיהום
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,
שיש הרבה סוגים של רובוטים
humanoid in structure.
they've got metal,
and you could hug them.
straight out of "Terminator,"
straight out of "Terminator."
ישר מ"שליחות קטלנית."
things with these robots --
ממש מגניבים עם רובוטים אלה --
at different kinds of robots --
על סוגים שונים של רובוטים --
from the things that don't look like us,
really cool things that we can't,
שאנחנו לא ממש יכולים לעשות,
לא יכולים לעשות.
like moving around on the floor;
כמו להסתובב על הרצפה;
and they eat our crops;
ואוכלים את היבול שלנו;
לא באמת עושים את זה.
characteristics in future robots
כאלה ברובוטים עתידיים
some really interesting problems?
now in the environment
שיש לנו בסביבה עכשיו
the skills and the technologies
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.
יותר ויותר יבולים
chemicals onto the land.
כימיקלים לתוך הקרקע.
nitrates, pesticides --
that encourage the growth of the crops,
if you put lots of fertilizer on the land,
שדישון יתר של הקרקע
into lakes, into rivers
of these chemicals, these nitrates,
את החנקות האלו
that will be affected by that --
שיושפעו מכך --
it will mass produce.
להתרבות המונית.
and masses of new algae.
when algae reproduces like this,
in the water can't survive.
that will eat the algae,
of the engines that we use,
flush their oil tanks into the sea,
את מיכלי הדלק לתוך הים,
if we could treat that in some way
בזה בדרך כלשהי
the oil fields have produced?
את הזיהום שנוצר בשדות הנפט?
you see the basking shark.
so you can swim with it,
collecting plankton.
in its body to keep moving.
שבגופו כדי להמשיך לנוע.
that chugs through the water
from other organisms.
מאורגניזמים אחרים.
of a water boatman,
to push itself forward.
to make a new kind of robot.
the water boatman as inspiration,
בסיראי המים כהשראה,
we saw right at the beginning.
robots don't look like that,
anything like the others.
at the components
like the parts of any organism.
כמו החלקים של כל אורגניזם.
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,
ואנחנו צריכים לטפל בזיהום,
called a microbial fuel cell.
and I'll lift up the fuel cell.
a conventional power system,
in the form of pollution,
בצורה של זיהום,
like a chemical fuel cell,
come across in school,
take hydrogen and oxygen,
and you get electricity.
it was in the Apollo space missions.
ששימשה במשימות החלל של אפולו.
hydrogen on the other,
there are living microbes.
the microbes will eat that food,
יאכלו את המזון,
the right kind of microbes,
של המיקרובים
to treat some of the pollution.
כדי לטפל בחלק מהזיהום.
של מיקרובים,
spirits and crude oil.
how this stomach could be used
כיצד ניתן להשתמש בקיבה הזאת
from the pollution.
through the environment,
to move through the environment
when we run the Row-bot --
את הרואו-בוט -
hopefully you can see here
התקווה שתוכלו לראות כאן
as the waste products go out.
יוצאים החוצה.
as quickly as possible.
מהר ככל האפשר.
of electricity per second.
as much energy that that uses
has done its digestion,
until it has consumed all that food.
את כל המזון הזה.
it could take some days.
זה יכול להמשך כמה ימים.
looks like this:
doing the same thing again.
like a real organism, doesn't it?
זה נראה כמו סוג של דבר שאנחנו עושים.
we go out, open our mouths,
we do the same thing again.
אנו עושים את אותו הדבר שוב.
we'll have enough energy left over
I've eaten recently,"
that I've encountered,"
saying, "This is where I am,"
that we saw before,
is put your Row-bot out there,
את הרואו-בוט,
which themselves are not biodegradable.
things like toxic batteries.
מכילים דברים כמו סוללות רעילות.
their job of work,
of Row-bots you can use.
שניתן להשתמש בהם.
like a biological organism,
made out of plastic,
in which we use robots.
out into the environment,
into the environment.
they're going to degrade to nothing.
הם יתפרקו ויתכלו.
in which you think about robots
שבה אתם חושבים על רובוטים
that you can do this.
which are biodegradable.
is you can use household materials
שניתן להשתמש בחומרים ביתיים
you might be surprised.
אתם עשויים להיות מופתעים.
which we have at the moment,
called artificial muscles.
שנקראים שרירים מלאכותיים.
or they bend or they twist.
you have these artificial muscles.
artificial muscles out of jelly.
the microbial fuel cell's stomach
קיבת תא הדלק המיקרוביאלי
robot out of biodegradable materials.
מחומרים מתכלים.
and they degrade to nothing.
in which we think about robots,
שבה אנו חושבים על רובוטים,
to be really creative
ממש יצירתיים
about what you can do with these robots.
שניתן לעשות עם הרובוטים האלה.
he's not robotic, OK?
הוא לא רובוטי, אוקיי?
is you put it in your mouth --
שמים אותם בפה שלכם --
it's a robot, it may not like it.
זה רובוט זה עלול לא למצוא חן בעניו.
it moves, it thinks, it twists, it bends,
הוא נע, חושב, מתפתל, מתכופף
into your intestines,
some ulcer or cancer,
something like that.
it's done its job of work,
עשה את העבודה פעם אחת
in which we think about robots.
שבה אנחנו חושבים על רובוטים.
at robots that would eat pollution,
at robots which we can eat.
we can do with future robots.
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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