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

FACTS / TIME LINE

SHADOWBOX

ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITIES OF YOUR WORLD

My world has a murder hornet infestation and people are dying everywhere. When humans went underground, the hornets adapted and became immune to insecticide and the population grew a lot.

My robot attracts bees and traps them to either be studied or eliminated.

Storyboard

Biomimcry Analysis

Biomimcry Mechanisms

Interactive Prototyping

Final Prototype

Final Prototype GIF

CONCEPT ART

2040 - catastrophe, flooding, storms, overpopulation

2050 - neo-eugenicist sterilization programs, absolute massenclosure of the commons

2055 - cybernetic climate control + superindustrial agriculture

2090 - second dust-bowl

2095 - partial megamachine collapse in the third world and some areas of the west

2110 - citadel-cities linked to asteroid + comet mines continue to function

cyber-nomadic cultures competing with warlords for scarce resources outside citadel territory

transcript: [citadels sequester resources and rely on resources imported by surrounding industrial agricultural areas + asteroids mined in orbit]

-DESERTIFICATION

-RESOURCE SHORTAGES

-CLIMATE CHANGE

Starting Facts

-7.8 billion population

-increasing 1.08% per year

-People need 1 acre to be self sufficient

-4 people have visited moon for tourism

2025

Growing popluation leading to deforestation

2035

Earth is overpopulated

2040

Society collapse due to unsustainable enviornment

2041

Wealthy move to moon to create new society

2050

Two societies (moon and earth)

Moontopia

Earth Overpopulation, Rich living on moon. Only resource of food is special berry trees.

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1. food source is trees
2. no animals
3. Lack of oxygen
4. Waste Production

Environmental Issues

Brainstorm Sketches

Storyboard

Biomimcry Analysis

Biomimcry Sketches

Interactive Prototyping

Final Prototype

Special Details

Final Prototype Video