/technologies/industrial-automation-space/b/blog/posts/tiny-robots-could-collect-lithium-ions-from-seawaterLithium ore. (Image Credit: James St. John. Used under CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons ) Texas A&amp;M University researchers are developing autonomous nanobots designed to dive in seawater to retrieve lithium ions. In turn, seawater can serve as ...en-USTelligent Community 12https://community.element14.com/technologies/industrial-automation-space/b/blog/posts/tiny-robots-could-collect-lithium-ions-from-seawaterThu, 13 Aug 2026 05:14:11 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:784d4371-76bf-4151-be39-5a1f1bb3800barvindsa1<p>Very interesting and the approach is quite novel. The critical question that would have to be finally answered would be the financial economics of the extraction.</p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=30041&AppID=141&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">