WatCleaner Robot Drinks Up Water Pollution
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Friday, 10 of July , 2009 at 3:57 am
Water has long been a repository for just about anything and everything that humans have ever wanted to get rid of semi-permanently, and it’s starting to show. WatCleaner is a concept robot that’s designed to float around rivers and lakes and oceans cleaning the water as it goes. It can deal with both bulk garbage (by slurping it down and disintegrating it) and suspended pollution like oil (by absorbing it into collection bladders). It’s even, supposedly, smart enough not to ingest and disintegrate narwhals or porpoises or anything.
The bot is fairly small, at only half a meter long, implying that a lot of them will be needed to have any meaningful impact, especially if they need to be emptied and refueled. The concept doesn’t really deal with the operational logistics (most concepts don’t), but at the very least, it’s laudable in what it’s trying to accomplish.
[ IDC Design Competition ] VIA [ Blue Living Ideas ]
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