可食用水生机器人,使用Marangoni推进系统.
Shuhang Zhang1, Bokeon Kwak1, Ruihao Zhu2
1Laboratory of Intelligent Systems, School of Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, STI-IGM-LIS, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Nature communications
|May 7, 2025
概括
研究人员使用鱼开发了一种可生物降解,可食用的水生机器人. 这款环保设备使用马兰戈尼效应进行推进,为环境监测和野生动物支持提供了可持续的解决方案.
科学领域:
- 机器人技术 机器人技术 机器人技术
- 环境科学 环境科学
- 材料科学 材料科学 材料科学
背景情况:
- 现有的水中机器人使用人工聚合物和电子设备,如果不恢复,可能会造成污染和生态破坏的风险.
- 对于敏感的生态系统来说,需要可持续且无破坏性的水生监测和干预技术至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 设计和演示一个完全可生物降解和可食用的自行水产设备.
- 通过可持续的替代方案,解决传统水生机器人所带来的环境挑战.
主要方法:
- 利用马兰戈尼效应来实现水上机器人的自主推进.
- 从冷干燥的鱼肉制造机器人的身体,确保生物降解性和食用性.
- 利用水触发的气动反应持续释放表面活性剂,为设备的运动提供动力.
主要成果:
- 成功创建了一个自动驾驶的,厘米尺度的水中机器人,其成分是可生物降解和可食用的.
- 由马兰戈尼效应和安全,水触发的表面活性剂释放机制驱动的证明自主推进.
- 该设备的无毒性质允许在水生环境中安全部署,用于各种应用.
结论:
- 开发的可食用水生机器人为水生监测,勘探和干预提供了一个新的,对环境无害的解决方案.
- 这项技术消除了检索的需要,减少了生态影响,并使大规模部署成为可能.
- 机器人的组成提供了双重使用的潜力,在部署后为水生野生动物提供营养.
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