Summary: <p>Director of MIT’s SENSEable City Lab <a href="http://poptech.org/carlo_ratti">Carlo Ratti</a> wondered if there was a way to create a small, inexpensive, scalable, self-organizing system to help remove the oil after the Gulf oil spill. He discusses the inception of <a href="http://senseable.mit.edu/seaswarm/">Seaswarm</a>, a fleet of low-cost oil-absorbing robots in his PopTech 2010 talk.</p>
