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3D-Printed Mushroom Brained Robot Detects Harmful Gases

Matias Prieto — Mon, 11 Mar 2019 15:54:54 +0000

Life Guardian is a cyborg that integrates a 3D printed mechanical part and a living part: a mushroom. The biological part determines and modifies the robot behavior, so it is considered as its brain. It was created by two Argentinean electronic artists for the festival of Land Art Mongolia 2018. Their purpose was to […]

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Guy Wants to Deliver 100 Networked Pollution Monitors to Poor Countries

Jose Aguilar — Fri, 01 Dec 2017 18:45:43 +0000

If you remember uRadMonitor – it’s had a fair amount of success in its last campaign. Now, creator Radu Motisan wants to deliver 100 pollution detectors to poor countries worldwide, while you also get one. When you install the right Air Quality measuring equipment fitted with sensors for sampling stations in selected locations, you get […]

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Major Environment Polluters Detected With New Infrared Camera

Mila Luleva — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 21:04:42 +0000

Sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, hydrocarbons and many other toxic environmental pollutants can now be easily and accurately detected thanks to a new infrared camera developed by scientists at The Universidad Carlos III de Madrid’s Laboratorio del Infrarrojo (LIR). The biggest advantage of the technology is that each compound can be measured separately from […]

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Robotic Fish Detecting Water Pollution

Mike Sandru — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 05:58:30 +0000

A team of researchers at the University of Essex has received European funds worth 2.5 million pounds to complete a project to construct a robotic fish shaped like Carp able to monitor the pollution from ports.

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