{"id":6091,"date":"2022-06-22T12:40:43","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T10:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/22\/scientists-unveil-bionic-robo-fish-to-remove-microplastics-from-seas\/"},"modified":"2022-06-22T12:40:43","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T10:40:43","slug":"scientists-unveil-bionic-robo-fish-to-remove-microplastics-from-seas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/22\/scientists-unveil-bionic-robo-fish-to-remove-microplastics-from-seas\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists unveil bionic robo-fish to remove microplastics from seas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tiny self-propelled robo-fish can swim around, latch on to free-floating microplastics and fix itself if it gets damaged<\/p>\n<p>Scientists have designed a tiny robot-fish that is programmed to remove microplastics from seas and oceans by swimming around and adsorbing them on its soft, flexible, self-healing body.<\/p>\n<p>Microplastics are the billions of tiny plastic particles which fragment from the bigger plastic things used every day such as water bottles, car tires, synthetic T-shirts. They are one of the 21st century\u2019s biggest environmental problems because once <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2022\/apr\/06\/microplastics-found-deep-in-lungs-of-living-people-for-first-time\">they\u2019re dispersed into the environment<\/a> through the breakdown of larger plastics they are very hard to get rid of, making their way into drinking water, produce, and food, harming the environment and animal and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2021\/sep\/22\/more-microplastics-in-babies-faeces-than-in-adults-study\">human health<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2022\/jun\/22\/scientists-unveil-bionic-robo-fish-to-remove-microplastics-from-seas\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/f2f74606eb194b09938b423134682e3b831bb275\/0_91_1617_970\/master\/1617.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=44637390c1b19105c6868a07f8502f2e\" title=\"Scientists unveil bionic robo-fish to remove microplastics from seas\" \/>Tiny self-propelled robo-fish can swim around, latch on to free-floating microplastics and fix itself if it gets damaged<br \/>\nScientists have designed a tiny robot-fish that is programmed to remove microplastics from seas and oceans by swimming around and adsorbing them on its soft, flexible, self-healing body.<br \/>\nMicroplastics are the billions of tiny plastic particles which fragment from the bigger plastic things used every day such as water bottles, car tires, synthetic T-shirts. They are one of the 21st century\u2019s biggest environmental problems because once they\u2019re dispersed into the environment through the breakdown of larger plastics they are very hard to get rid of, making their way into drinking water, produce, and food, harming the environment and animal and human health. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tiny self-propelled robo-fish can swim around, latch on to free-floating microplastics and fix itself if it gets damaged Scientists have designed a tiny robot-fish that is programmed to remove microplastics from seas and oceans by swimming around and adsorbing them on its soft, flexible, self-healing body. Microplastics are the billions of tiny plastic particles which &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/22\/scientists-unveil-bionic-robo-fish-to-remove-microplastics-from-seas\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Scientists unveil bionic robo-fish to remove microplastics from seas<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6091"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}