Scientists create a water robot that can be eaten by fish
The device is biodegradable because it is made of fish food and can nourish its lifelong water wildlife
Edible robot biodegradable for environmental monitoring devices made of artificial and electronic polymer – and nutritious – substitute
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Scientists have developed a water robot, which can be taken at the end of its useful life.
Robot, with a small boat shaped, can move in water using Carbon dioxide reactions, citric acid, sodium bicarbonate and propylene glycol – all non -toxic and biodegradable materials – It has already allowed the device to nadate for several minutes.
“Although the development of micro -swimming robots for natural surroundings is developed quickly, they are usually based on plastics, batteries and other electronic parts. With this work, we will show them how to completely replace them through biodegradable and edible parts,” said a doctoral student at the doctor. Lis -epflShuhang Zhang is one of those responsible for creating a robot.
Robot is designed not only for harmless for water, but also beneficial. To add resistance and vision FF to external construction, it is about 5 cm long, used by researchers Fish for fish with another 30% protein and low 8% fat The food sold in the Anima stores
The EPFL sees the possibility of producing large quantities of these types of robots to collect environmental data, such as water pH, temperature, contaminants and microorganisms.
They can also be used to provide fish or medicines to fish, and the possibility of raising artificial pets is really considered, although experiences are still in the early stages.
