New York teachers build a snail-inspired robot that traps microplastics in water

New York teachers build a snail-inspired robot that traps microplastics in water

A group of New York teachers is battling one of the world's messiest pollution problems while taking inspiration from an unlikely source: the aquatic snail. At a workshop at Cornell University, educators built and tested small robots that skim surface water and capture microplastics. The classroom-friendly devices are adapted from a research project on how snails move and feed. What happened? According to the Cornell Chronicle, during the worksh…