Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has just invented a device that can absorb very efficient and with low cost the petrol that is floating into seas.
The Seaswarm robot is composed from a long band that has 5 m in length and 2 m in width covered with a network of nano-filaments that are capable to absorb 20 times its one weight of petrol and at the same time no water molecule. After the job is done the material can be heated and the oil will fell. So the robot can be used again.
The MIT engineers are thinking of an army of such robots that can coordinate themsefls with wireless technology and GPS.
It is estimated tat with 5000 robots the Golf of Mexico could be cleaned up in about one month from the oil disaster that is happening these days.
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