IN A WORLD...

...where saltwater has become our only source of energy, humans have moved civilization below the surface. Though pollution remains, we have built buildings and houses. Now we live underwater permanently, the only problem is air...

2021 FACT: SALT WATER ENERGY

Products like Hydralight show that saltwater can be turned into energy

2021 FACT: OCEAN CLEAN-UP

Clear nets can collect the trash polluting the seas

2021 FACT: HYDROGEN POWER

Hydrogen-led pathways to cleaning up the environment forecast hydrogen powering more than 400 million cars, 15 to 20 million buses, and more than 20 percent of passenger ships and locomotives by 2050.

PRESENT

FUTURE

2021

Saltwater can be converted to energy

Plant life adapts and changes

SALTWATER AQUALINE

Global warming / pollution leads to blocking of the sun

Fossil Fuels

Run Out, Too much pollution for solar energy

no way to grow food

saltwater energy becomes best energy source

countries build salt water energy farms

underwater farms

people stop eating salt

2300

need to harvest/filter oxygen from the surface

society is forced to live underwater due to poor air quality and because water is now the best energy source

construction of underwater cities with renewable energy

ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITIES

SALTWATER AQUALINE

• Underwater housing
• Underwater Vegetation Farming
• Trash Streams

Problems for Environmental Robots

1. Trash and waste disposal
2. Living underwater pressure causes humans to die young
3. Running out of saltwater as an energy source
4. No organic light source starts to kill ecosystems
5. limited oxygen

I believe for something to be a robot means it can independently change an input into a distinct output. A robot that needs to be physically moved by someone else is just a machine, not a robot. A robot is able to adapt to situations that it hasn't been specifically programmed for. For example, spot isn't programmed for every single way he could possibly fall, yet he is able to decide how to get up. A robot also has to be able to perform a task. 

ROBOT DEFINITION

TASK

SELF-NAVIGATION

How it Works

Detailed Section

NAVIGATION Biomimcry Analysis

Biomimcry Mechanisms

Circuit Board

Arduino Code

Electrical Housing

BARREL CAM MECHANISM

navigation : forward propulsion

INFLATABLE BLADDER

for air collection / floatation device

SONAR SENSOR

navigation : object detection

SHELL

houses bladder / electronics

TAIL

steering navigation

TURTLE BOT

3000

TURTLE-BOT

ROHAN JAYARAMAN

NuVuX Seminar : Environmental Robots

FACTS / TIME LINE

• Present day: discovered that salted water can be turned into energy
• All forms of energy sources run out (solar, fossil fuels, etc) (sun implodes…)
• Society is forced to live underwater to have an energy source
• Plant life is forced to adapt and change

SHADOWBOX

Saltwater Aqualine:

In a world where salt water has become our only source of energy, humans have moved civilization below the surface. Though pollution remains, we have built buildings and houses. Now we live underwater permanently, the only problem is air...

ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITIES OF YOUR WORLD

1. Trash and waste disposal
2. Living under water pressure causes humans to die young
3. Running out of salt water as an energy source
4. No organic light source starts to kill ecosystems
5. (favorite) limited oxygen…

Storyboard

Biomimcry Analysis

Biomimcry Mechanisms

Interactive Prototyping

Final Prototype

Final Prototype GIF