Title:
Light-powered soft robots could suck up oil spills
Author:
Jules Bernstein
Published:
University of California - Riverside, 2 December 2021
From the article:
A floating, robotic film designed at UC Riverside could be trained to hoover oil spills at sea or remove contaminants from drinking water. Powered by light and fueled by water, the film could be deployed indefinitely to clean remote areas where recharging by other means would prove difficult.