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The professor of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena Carlos Godinez and the Mexican artist Gilberto Esparza have managed to create a cyber plant is capable of traveling to find water becomes contaminated after the energy needed to move.
The real robot is exposed biotech these days at the art center of Gijon and is creating great excitement among all those attending the shows.
Citizens of the Region of Murcia, may be envisaged from September Párraga Center of the city of Murcia.
Dr. Carlos Godinez Seoane, professor of Chemical Engineering and Environmental UPCT has been responsible for the technological part of the project that bears the suggestive name of "nomadic plants."
Godinez has been able to provide the energy needed by the device to scroll through a system with microbial fuel cells.
"These are devices that can generate moderate amounts of energy from organic matter contained in the domestic and industrial wastewater. This organic matter provides food for microorganisms which exist in their own sewage, and, attached to an electrode are able to transmit electrons produced in metabolism and constitute what could be identified with a stack. As a result of the process water is treated and produce moderate amounts of energy. "
With these cells, the biorobot, a true fusion of plants, microorganisms, a brain endowed with artificial intelligence, fuel cells and mechanical elements, has a power source for its core functions.
You can move through twelve small legs with which it is equipped, overcome obstacles, approach to a runway contaminated water and by sucking the cells into energy.
The water quality once it is refined enough to water the plants and getting these to stay alive.
In collaboration with the artist, Godinez stresses "the idea of exploiting the visual and media power that art has to use it to disseminate our own research work and pass through the environmental significance of the work a message to society."
A partnership that can go a long way, as the possibility of making music as well.
The activity of microorganisms, translated into voltage, could "background music" by electronic circuits and build with them compositions.
The artist Gilberto Esparza, this project, wants to appeal to the pollution problems afflicting the planet and the need to seek solutions to prevent degradation: "The maintenance of a system based practically on one source of energy-oil - subordinate the weaker economies to a small nucleus of power, with devastating consequences for the planet in terms of social and environmental.
The technology has infinite potential in the transformation of lifestyles and social and political relations in the world. "
This idea born nomads plants that are not nothing but "a metaphor for the alienated human condition and the impact generated by their activity in nature."
Source: UPCT
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