Jonathan Rossiter: A robot that eats pollution
Jonathan Rossiter: Robot do zjadania zanieczyszczeń
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?
zapytalibyście Google,
and this is what we get.
lots of different types of robots,
człekopodobne w strukturze.
humanoid in structure.
they've got metal,
and you could hug them.
wyglądają jak z "Terminatora"
straight out of "Terminator,"
straight out of "Terminator."
mnóstwo fajnych rzeczy,
things with these robots --
at different kinds of robots --
from the things that don't look like us,
które nie wyglądają jak my,
really cool things that we can't,
like moving around on the floor;
and they eat our crops;
characteristics in future robots
some really interesting problems?
now in the environment
the skills and the technologies
wykorzystać umiejętności
to solve those problems.
at two environmental problems.
with the environment
with the pressure of population.
tak zwanej presji populacji.
of population around the world
to produce more and more crops.
muszą produkować więcej.
więcej substancji chemicznych.
chemicals onto the land.
nitrates, pesticides --
that encourage the growth of the crops,
if you put lots of fertilizer on the land,
into lakes, into rivers
of these chemicals, these nitrates,
that will be affected by that --
na organizmy w nim żyjące.
it will mass produce.
rozrosną się masowo.
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,
if we could treat that in some way
the oil fields have produced?
skażenie spowodowane przez pola naftowe.
pochłaniające zanieczyszczenia.
you see the basking shark.
więc można z nim pływać.
so you can swim with it,
collecting plankton.
in its body to keep moving.
z pokarmu, by utrzymać się w ruchu.
that chugs through the water
też z innych organizmów.
from other organisms.
of a water boatman,
to push itself forward.
to make a new kind of robot.
the water boatman as inspiration,
zaprezentowane na początku.
we saw right at the beginning.
robots don't look like that,
i nie przypomina w niczym tamtych.
anything like the others.
które go tworzą i wyróżniają.
at the components
like the parts of any organism.
do wytworzenia energii.
those three components,
will have those three components,
miękkie gumowe usta z jednej strony,
it's got two mouths.
it's got a mouth and a derriere,
like that basking shark.
i pozbyć się zanieczyszczenia.
and we need to treat the pollution,
called a microbial fuel cell.
napędzaną mikrobiologicznym paliwem.
and I'll lift up the fuel cell.
a conventional power system,
in the form of pollution,
energią czyli zanieczyszczeniem,
komórka mikrobiologiczna.
like a chemical fuel cell,
lub słyszymy w wiadomościach.
come across in school,
take hydrogen and oxygen,
and you get electricity.
it was in the Apollo space missions.
hydrogen on the other,
there are living microbes.
mikroby wchłoną te odpady
the microbes will eat that food,
the right kind of microbes,
to treat some of the pollution.
spirits and crude oil.
how this stomach could be used
from the pollution.
z niego energii elektrycznej.
through the environment,
to move through the environment
when we run the Row-bot --
hopefully you can see here
w miarę wydalania resztek.
as the waste products go out.
as quickly as possible.
of electricity per second.
energii elektrycznej na sekundę.
około jednego wata.
as much energy that that uses
razy więcej zużytej energii
has done its digestion,
until it has consumed all that food.
zostanie strawiony.
it could take some days.
looks like this:
doing the same thing again.
like a real organism, doesn't it?
wychodzimy, otwieramy usta,
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.
things like toxic batteries.
their job of work,
of Row-bots you can use.
like a biological organism,
made out of plastic,
in which we use robots.
10 czy 100 w środowisku,
out into the environment,
into the environment.
they're going to degrade to nothing.
in which you think about robots
that you can do this.
which are biodegradable.
is you can use household materials
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
można wykonać także z papieru.
robot out of biodegradable materials.
z biodegradowalnych materiałów.
and they degrade to nothing.
a one same się rozłożą.
in which we think about robots,
sposób postrzegania robotów.
to be really creative
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.
bo to robot i może tego nie lubić.
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.
postrzegania robotów.
at robots that would eat pollution,
konsumujących zanieczyszczenia.
at robots which we can eat.
które sami możemy zjeść.
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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