Jonathan Rossiter: A robot that eats pollution
Jonathan Rossiter: A szennyeződést evő robot
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,
humanoid in structure.
they've got metal,
and you could hug them.
át is ölelhetjük őket.
straight out of "Terminator,"
jönnének.
straight out of "Terminator."
csináltathatunk velük,
things with these robots --
at different kinds of robots --
from the things that don't look like us,
amelyek nem hasonlítanak ránk,
really cool things that we can't,
amelyekre sem mi,
like moving around on the floor;
pl. mozognak a padlón,
and they eat our crops;
és elfogyasztják őket.
characteristics in future robots
fölhasználhatnánk e jellemzőket
some really interesting problems?
now in the environment
the skills and the technologies
azokat a fogásokat és technikákat,
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.
egyre több termést kell előállítania.
chemicals onto the land.
nitrates, pesticides --
növényvédő szereket,
that encourage the growth of the crops,
a növények fejlődésére,
if you put lots of fertilizer on the land,
hogy a rengeteg kijuttatott műtrágyának
into lakes, into rivers
of these chemicals, these nitrates,
that will be affected by that --
it will mass produce.
kezd elszaporodni.
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,
használt motorokból
flush their oil tanks into the sea,
a tengerbe öblítik,
if we could treat that in some way
kezelhetnénk őket,
the oil fields have produced?
okozta szennyeződést?
you see the basking shark.
so you can swim with it,
collecting plankton.
in its body to keep moving.
teste mozgatására használja.
that chugs through the water
from other organisms.
egy másik organizmus adta.
of a water boatman,
to push itself forward.
to make a new kind of robot.
the water boatman as inspiration,
adja az ihletet,
mert a row evezést jelent.
a korábban mutatottakhoz.
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.
mint bármely élő szervezet részei:
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,
kezelnünk kell a szennyeződést,
called a microbial fuel cell.
mikroba-üzemanyagcellának hívjuk.
and I'll lift up the fuel cell.
az üzemanyagcellát.
energiaellátás helyett
a conventional power system,
in the form of pollution,
szennyeződés formájában,
vegyi üzemanyagcella,
like a chemical fuel cell,
come across in school,
hidrogénből és oxigénből
take hydrogen and oxygen,
and you get electricity.
it was in the Apollo space missions.
az Apolló űrhajóban is azt használták
hydrogen on the other,
there are living microbes.
the microbes will eat that food,
megeszik azt az ételt,
the right kind of microbes,
to treat some of the pollution.
egyes szennyeződések kezelésére.
spirits and crude oil.
és nyersolaj-származékokat.
how this stomach could be used
from the pollution.
áramtermelésre is használható.
through the environment,
to move through the environment
when we run the Row-bot --
a row-bottal működés közben,
hopefully you can see here
as the waste products go out.
az ürülék pedig kikerül belőle.
sok energiát termelnének
as quickly as possible.
of electricity per second.
kevés energiát termelnek.
as much energy that that uses
a mikroba-üzemanyagcella termel.
has done its digestion,
until it has consumed all that food.
meg nem emészti.
it could take some days.
looks like this:
doing the same thing again.
ugyanazt a folyamatot.
like a real organism, doesn't it?
is így tesznek, nem?
kitátjuk a szánkat,
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,"
saying, "This is where I am,"
that we saw before,
is put your Row-bot out there,
which themselves are not biodegradable.
melyek biológiailag nem bomlanak le.
things like toxic batteries.
their job of work,
of Row-bots you can use.
row-botok számát.
like a biological organism,
made out of plastic,
in which we use robots.
out into the environment,
vagy 100 robotot helyeznénk ki,
into the environment.
küldhetnénk a természetbe.
they're going to degrade to nothing.
és felhasználásuk módjáról
in which you think about robots
that you can do this.
which are biodegradable.
lebomló robotot gyártani.
is you can use household materials
háztartásunkban föllelhető
you might be surprised.
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
gyomrát meg lehet csinálni
robot out of biodegradable materials.
biológiailag lebomló anyagokból.
and they degrade to nothing.
in which we think about robots,
a robotokról alkotott képünket.
hogy kreatívak legyünk,
to be really creative
about what you can do with these robots.
mit kezdhetünk a robotokkal.
he's not robotic, OK?
jó, ez még nem a robot.
is you put it in your mouth --
it's a robot, it may not like it.
lehet, hogy nem szereti.
it moves, it thinks, it twists, it bends,
into your intestines,
some ulcer or cancer,
something like that.
it's done its job of work,
in which we think about robots.
nézetünket a robotokról.
at robots that would eat pollution,
elfogyasztó robotokkal kezdtük,
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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