该项目在实验室环境下的演示非常成功,研究团队(包括北卡州立大学教授埃德加o洛巴顿和米哈伊尔o斯契提尤)已经获得了美国国家科学基金会(National Science Foundation)信息物理系统(Cyber-Physical Systems)项目提供的资金,以尽快将该技术用于现实情境。团队的目标是在三至四年内实现该技术的实际应用。
“We are hoping that the swarm of insect biobots will be able to sweep the rubble from one end to another in a very short amount of time, while letting first responders hear any calls for help coming from the victims buried under the rubble, or let them know about the potential hazards such as gas leakages,” said Bozkurt.
博兹库尔特表示:“我们希望大群昆虫生物机器人可以在极短时间内横扫废墟,帮助现场急救人员搜寻废墟中掩埋的受困人员的呼救,或使急救人员了解潜在的危险,如燃气泄漏等情况。”
According to Bozkurt, one of the most efficient methods in engineering has been “biomimetics,” where researchers have looked at nature, learned from the existing biosystems and applied different engineering principles to mimic these when solving real-life problems. Despite several inventions and explorations, humans are still limited in their understanding and ability to mimic the relatively more complicated properties of biological machines.
据博兹库尔特透露,工程学中最有效的方法之一是“仿生学”,即研究人员从大自然中寻找灵感,向现有的生物系统学习,应用不同的工程学原理模仿生物,解决实际问题。然而,尽管出现了一些发明和探索,对于生物机器相对更复杂的特性,人类的了解和模仿能力仍非常有限。
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