Cleaning Up the Gulf
Posted on June 28th, 2010 by jxh
Eric Hoek is working with BP engineers to deploy prototypes of oil-water separation technology to aid in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.Robot Soaks Up the Sun and Saves Lives
Posted on June 28th, 2010 by jxh
If you’re swimming in the surf this summer, don’t expect to see a lifeguard from Baywatch racing to save you from a riptide.
Instead, your rescuer may be EMILY: the 4 foot long robot lifeguard.
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Tags: Mechanical, Ocean, Robotics
One Fish, Two Fish
Posted on June 9th, 2010 by jxh
Millions of fish and marine wildlife are dying as a result of the massive oil spill off the Gulf Coast.
What if there were ways to lead fish away from such dangers and direct them to safer waters? It might be possible with the leadership of remote-controlled fish-like robots.
Maurizio Porfiri, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University, used smart materials to create a robot that would be accepted by real fish as an equal and a leader.
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Practice Your Swing and Feed the Fish
Posted on May 28th, 2010 by jxh
Golf is one of the most popular sports in the world – in the United States alone there are over 15,000 golf courses. Yet, each year, 300 million golf balls go missing, with many ending up in bodies of water. One golf ball can take up to 1,000 years to decompose, and as it does, it slowly excretes a large amount of heavy metal zinc, a pollutant.
So, in an effort to make sports and leisure more environmentally friendly, the Spanish company Albus Golf has created the Ecobioball: a golf ball packed with fish food that dissolves within 48 hours of being in water.
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Video: ECOBIOBALL – Play Golf, Feed Fish
Posted on May 27th, 2010 by als
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