We may not have figured out how to stop oil spills from happening, but the folks at SENSEable City Laboratory at MIT are one step closer to a solution to cleaning up the aftermath. Their newest ...

Over 800 skimmers were deployed in the Gulf of Mexico during the summer of 2010 to help clean up the Deepwater Horizon leak; however, it is estimated that these skimmers collected only three percent ...

A swarm of solar-powered robots may soon be brought in by scientists to clean up Gulf oil-type spills in a record time of 30 days. A swarm of solar-powered robots may soon be brought in by scientists ...

Want to clean up the Gulf of Mexico oil spill in one month? Seaswarm says it can be done with 5000 floating robots. As the name implies, the project uses swarm robotics. Each unit draws power from the ...

LOS ANGELES — Want to clean up an oil spill? There’s a robot for that. A team of scientists at MIT have developed a fleet of oil-absorbing robots — Seaswarm — that clean the ocean by collecting oil ...

Researchers at MIT have created a fleet of robots that can cruise the ocean and clean up surface oil slicks. The system, called Seaswarm, is a group of vehicles that may make cleaning up future oil ...

http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=17555522&postID=9221569040176362595 MIT has created a robotic prototype that could autonomously navigate the surface of the ...

Want to clean up an oil spill? There’s a robot for that. A team of scientists at MIT have developed a fleet of oil-absorbing robots — Seaswarm — that clean the ocean by collecting oil with a ...

MIT researchers tested the first prototype of the Seaswarm, a pack of robots that use nanotechnology to suck up oil from the surface of the ocean for immediate processing. When completed, the robots ...

This solar-powered fellow is part of a robot group called Seaswarm. He and his buddies are cheap, autonomous, and communicate via GPS and Wi-Fi. And 5,000 of them could theoretically clean up the Gulf ...

In the wake of this spring's Deepwater Horizon catastrophe, critics assailed the oil and gas industry for its inadequate preparations for cleaning up and containing massive oil spills. Now, ...

The Seaswarm project at MIT takes a thin, hydrophobic material and drags it behind a robot outfitted with GPS and WiFi for determining its location and communicating within a swarm. When deployed, the ...