Engineers Develop Lithium-Mining Nanorobots
The fish-like swimming nanorobots could make lithium recovery from seawater more efficient and strengthen the domestic supply.
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The company is using its new funds to scale up a process that “zaps” metals directly from leftover industrial waste.


The prototype mobile plant aims to make lithium from deep-sea waters in the North German Basin usable.


The economically recoverable lithium is enough to replace 328 years of U.S. imports at last year’s level.