#Robotics can learn a lot from #nature.

Originally shared by Esben Østergaard

#Robotics can learn a lot from #nature. When humans build a #robot resembling an ant, this process is called #biomimicry. And these little fellas, the "μTugs" can each pull up to 23 kilos while only weighing 17 grams. Six of these #ant like robots can pull a car of 1,800 kg. Now that is some muscle, isnt it?
http://bit.ly/1WBlbI9

It doesn't sound like a good idea..

It doesn't sound like a good idea..

#robotics #nature
http://www.techinsider.io/nautilus-minerals-seabed-mining-robots-2015-12

Our mission is to build a future in which humans live in harmony with #nature. What's yours?

Originally shared by WWF

Our mission is to build a future in which humans live in harmony with #nature. What's yours?

Nature and technology: Friends or enemies?

Originally shared by Jaana Nyström

Nature and technology: Friends or enemies?

"It’s all too easy to imagine nature and technology as being engaged in a centuries-long boxing match, with the 21st delivering the knockout punch.

Sunsets obscured by selfies. Hundreds of thousands of tonnes of toxic ‘e-waste’ dumped in Ghanaian wetlands each year. Words such as 'acorn', 'adder' and 'willow' excised from the Oxford Junior Dictionary to make way for 'broadband', 'analogue', and 'cut and paste'.

Humans never were part of nature. We were always part of technology..."

Read on: 
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150703-can-nature-and-technology-be-friends

#Nature   #Technology     #Humanity  
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150703-can-nature-and-technology-be-friends

#nature #eco #pollution #china

#nature   #eco   #pollution   #china  

Originally shared by Des Ford

40 images of the devastation caused by greed as Chinese industrialists chase a dollar with no thought for the future or consideration for our Earth.
Just think of the energy required to stop this all over China, and consider the energy required to clean it up.
http://www.visiontimes.com/2015/02/03/air-earth-water-everything-is-polluted-in-china.html