Shoe-Sized Dolphin Robot Swims Straight Into Oil Spills and Pulls Them Clean Out

Researchers at RMIT University in Australia built a small robot shaped like a dolphin. About the size of a sneaker, the machine glides across the surface of polluted water and gathers oil with a pump mounted at the front. A filter inside separates the oil from everything else, sending only the slick into an onboard [...]

Shoe-Sized Dolphin Robot Swims Straight Into Oil Spills and Pulls Them Clean Out
Researchers at RMIT University in Australia built a small robot shaped like a dolphin. About the size of a sneaker, the machine glides across the surface of polluted water and gathers oil with a pump mounted at the front. A filter inside separates the oil from everything else, sending only the slick into an onboard [...]

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