It will take several lifetimes for all of earth’s plastic waste to decompose, when not accounting for new plastics being produced every day. Nanites that can decompose plastics can help save us from this impending doom! https://ourworldindata.org/plastic-pollution
The use of plastics has many benefits – it is affordable, versatile, resistant, and can help reduce other forms of waste – especially food waste. However, when poorly managed it can pollute the environment and our oceans.
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Not having to visit an auto shop every other time for minor repairs sounds like heaven. Check out this article on car self-healing technology that uses microcapsules that release a healing agent when broken. https://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2004-12/car-repairs-itself/
It’s a shame how easily cars get dented. All it takes is a runaway shopping cart or a reckless jerk pulling into an adjacent parking spot. Why not make them from carbon-fiber composites, which are stronger, stiffer and lighter than steel?
Here is another self-healing car. This one uses a paint protection film that repairs scratches and cracks when exposed to sun or heat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPgXBWAst-A
Sounds out of this world, but the tech is being researched. Lamborghini is designing a car whose body panels are made of carbon nanotubes that store electricity. They can detect any cracks in the structure and self-heal by heating themselves.
Inspired by the biology of a bee, researchers at the Wyss Institute are developing RoboBees, manmade systems that could perform myriad roles in agriculture or disaster relief. A RoboBee measures about…
Scientists are trying to build a tiny drone with the agility of a mosquito. These light but strong flying robots could be used in critical situations, such as finding people in a collapsed building.
ARLINGTON, Va. – U.S. military researchers have chosen two organizations to develop enabling technologies for insect-size robots able to perform complex jobs like disaster relief or inspecting hazardous environments that are inaccessible to larger robots.
Houseflies are a nuisance, and the first instinct is to swat them away. For researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle, flies and other flying
How about these plastic-eating enzymes?
These nanites can break down microplastics into CO2 and water. So maybe there is hope for our planet yet!
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/this-new-nanotech-could-help-clean-up-earths-microplastics
It will take several lifetimes for all of earth’s plastic waste to decompose, when not accounting for new plastics being produced every day. Nanites that can decompose plastics can help save us from this impending doom!
https://ourworldindata.org/plastic-pollution
Not having to visit an auto shop every other time for minor repairs sounds like heaven. Check out this article on car self-healing technology that uses microcapsules that release a healing agent when broken. https://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2004-12/car-repairs-itself/
Here is another self-healing car. This one uses a paint protection film that repairs scratches and cracks when exposed to sun or heat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPgXBWAst-A
Sounds out of this world, but the tech is being researched. Lamborghini is designing a car whose body panels are made of carbon nanotubes that store electricity. They can detect any cracks in the structure and self-heal by heating themselves.
creating stuff before we know what to use it for…. again huh?
urr…. this
prefer this idea, they are already rescuing things, just need to scale down and test their abilities in contests we can watch, and bet on.
Arm this little guy with electrodes and fry the competitor on detecting it.
Or win by flying away from danger! Like real evolution, not just the war games version people often assume.
a version of microbot with claws and weapons at the top would be a good contender. 1cm3 max size is pushing it though, more like watching ants fight,