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By autonomously navigating the water’s surface, Seaswarm proposes a new system for ocean-skimming and oilremoval.Seaswarm uses a photovoltaic powered conveyor belt made of a thin nanowire mesh to propel itself andcollect oil. The nanomaterial, patented at MIT, can absorb up to 20 times its weight in oil. The flexible conveyorbelt softly rolls over the ocean’s surface, absorbing oil while deflecting water because of its hydrophobicproperties. Seaswarm is intended to work as a fleet, or “swarm” of vehicles, which communicate their locationthrough GPS and WiFi in order to create an organized system for collection that can work continuously withouthuman support. Because they are smaller than commercial skimmers attached to large fishing vessels, they areable to navigate hard to reach places like estuaries and coast lines. Seaswarm works by detecting the edge of aspill and moving inward until it has removed the oil from a single site before joining other vehicles that are stillcleaning. Oil is "digested" locally so that Seaswarm does not need to make repeated trips back to shore, whichwould dramatical
SeaswarmAutonomous robot fleet of oil-absorbing robots
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SeaswarmFIELDS: Animation, Computer Animation, Motion Graphics
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