{"id":188255,"date":"2024-04-28T06:26:22","date_gmt":"2024-04-28T11:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/rice-made-underwater-robot-swim-with-water-splitting-fuel-cells"},"modified":"2024-04-28T06:26:22","modified_gmt":"2024-04-28T11:26:22","slug":"rice-made-underwater-robot-swim-with-water-splitting-fuel-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/rice-made-underwater-robot-swim-with-water-splitting-fuel-cells","title":{"rendered":"RICE made underwater robot swim with water-splitting fuel cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7xik-x8ONSc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Traditional AUVs rely on thrusters or pumps to adjust depth, which consumes considerable energy and generates noise. Team BayMax\u2019s design replaces this system with a BCD that employs reversible hydrogen fuel cells. By splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen gases, the BCD can precisely control the ROV\u2019s buoyancy, mimicking the swim bladders found in fish.<\/p>\n<p>This approach offers many advantages. \u201cThe cool thing about this for us is that it\u2019s cutting-edge technology,\u201d remarked Bare. We\u2019re the first to implement it in a device with such comprehensive controls, making it truly groundbreaking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Professor Ghorbel echoed Bare\u2019s enthusiasm, highlighting the technology\u2019s vast potential. \u201cThis highly energy-efficient and silent system has applications beyond AUVs,\u201d he explained. \u201cIt holds promise for material intelligence, wearable assistive devices, and even adaptive robotic garments.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traditional AUVs rely on thrusters or pumps to adjust depth, which consumes considerable energy and generates noise. Team BayMax\u2019s design replaces this system with a BCD that employs reversible hydrogen fuel cells. By splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen gases, the BCD can precisely control the ROV\u2019s buoyancy, mimicking the swim bladders found in fish. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1514,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-space-travel","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}