Jonathan Rossiter: A robot that eats pollution
جوناثان روسيتر: الروبوت الذى يأكل التلوث
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,
ومختلفة من الروبوتات،
humanoid in structure.
من حيث البنية.
they've got metal,
and you could hug them.
straight out of "Terminator,"
straight out of "Terminator."
things with these robots --
الروبوتات--
at different kinds of robots --
الروبوتات--
الروبوتات.
from the things that don't look like us,
تشبهنا،
really cool things that we can't,
لا نستطيع فعلها،
like moving around on the floor;
الأرض،
and they eat our crops;
حقا.
characteristics in future robots
الروبوتات المستقبلية
some really interesting problems?
now in the environment
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.
وأكثر.
chemicals onto the land.
أكثر فأكثر في الأرض.
nitrates, pesticides --
that encourage the growth of the crops,
if you put lots of fertilizer on the land,
من الأسمدة في الأرض،
into lakes, into rivers
الأنهار،
of these chemicals, these nitrates,
النترات،
that will be affected by that --
بهذا--
it will mass produce.
and masses of new algae.
when algae reproduces like this,
الشكل،
in the water can't survive.
على قيد الحياة.
that will eat the algae,
of the engines that we use,
نستخدمها،
flush their oil tanks into the sea,
الوقود في البحر،
if we could treat that in some way
the oil fields have produced?
من الحقول النفطية التي أُنتجت؟
you see the basking shark.
so you can swim with it,
معه،
collecting plankton.
in its body to keep moving.
حركته.
that chugs through the water
from other organisms.
of a water boatman,
to push itself forward.
to make a new kind of robot.
the water boatman as inspiration,
كإلهام،
we saw right at the beginning.
هنا في البداية
robots don't look like that,
فالروبوتات لا تشبه تلك،
anything like the others.
at the components
like the parts of any organism.
كائن حي
those three components,
الثلاث،
will have those three components,
الثلاث،
it's got two mouths.
it's got a mouth and a derriere,
ومؤخرة،
like that basking shark.
and we need to treat the pollution,
ونحتاج إلى التعامل مع التلوث،
called a microbial fuel cell.
جرثومية.
and I'll lift up the fuel cell.
a conventional power system,
in the form of pollution,
فى هيئة التلوث،
like a chemical fuel cell,
come across in school,
take hydrogen and oxygen,
هيدروجين وأكسجين،
and you get electricity.
ويمكنكم الحصول على كهرباء.
it was in the Apollo space missions.
كانت فى بعثات أبولو الفضائية.
hydrogen on the other,
الآخر،
there are living microbes.
the microbes will eat that food,
the right kind of microbes,
المناسب من الميكروبات،
to treat some of the pollution.
للتعامل مع بعض التلوث.
spirits and crude oil.
how this stomach could be used
from the pollution.
through the environment,
to move through the environment
when we run the Row-bot --
المجدف--
hopefully you can see here
as the waste products go out.
as quickly as possible.
of electricity per second.
الثانية.
as much energy that that uses
تستخدم
has done its digestion,
until it has consumed all that food.
الطعام.
it could take some days.
looks like this:
doing the same thing again.
like a real organism, doesn't it?
أليس كذلك؟
we go out, open our mouths,
we do the same thing again.
مرة أخرى.
we'll have enough energy left over
من الطاقة المتبقية
I've eaten recently,"
that I've encountered,"
saying, "This is where I am,"
" هذا ما فعلته"،
that we saw before,
من قبل،
is put your Row-bot out there,
الخاص بكم هناك،
which themselves are not biodegradable.
things like toxic batteries.
بها أشياء كالبطاريات السامة.
their job of work,
of Row-bots you can use.
تستخدمونها.
like a biological organism,
ككائن حي جرثومي،
made out of plastic,
فهي صنعت من البلاستيك
in which we use robots.
مع الروبوتات.
out into the environment,
into the environment.
فى البيئة.
they're going to degrade to nothing.
in which you think about robots
الروبوتات
that you can do this.
which are biodegradable.
is you can use household materials
منزلية
you might be surprised.
ربما تدهشون.
which we have at the moment,
called artificial muscles.
or they bend or they twist.
you have these artificial muscles.
يكون بحوزتكم هذه العضلات الاصطناعية.
artificial muscles out of jelly.
the microbial fuel cell's stomach
خلية وقود ميكروبية
robot out of biodegradable materials.
غير قابلة للتحلل.
and they degrade to nothing.
in which we think about robots,
التي نفكر بها حول الروبوتات،
to be really creative
about what you can do with these robots.
عن ما يمكنكم فعله بهذه الروبوتات.
he's not robotic, OK?
هو ليس روبوتاً، حسناً؟
is you put it in your mouth --
في أفواهكم--
it's a robot, it may not like it.
ربما لا تحبوها.
it moves, it thinks, it twists, it bends,
وتلتوي وتنحني،
into your intestines,
some ulcer or cancer,
something like that.
it's done its job of work,
in which we think about robots.
التي تفكرون بها حول الروبوتات
at robots that would eat pollution,
التي تأكل التلوث،
at robots which we can eat.
we can do with future robots.
فعلها بالروبوتات المستقبلية.
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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