  During the last fifty-one years, the effect of excitation of the quantum
vacuum field induced by its coupling with a moving object has been
systematically studied. Here, we propose and investigate a somewhat inverted
setting: an object, initially at rest, whose motion becomes induced by an
excitation of the quantum vacuum caused by the object itself. In the present
model, this excitation occurs asymmetrically on different sides of the object
by a variation in time of one of its characteristic parameters, which couple it
with the quantum vacuum field.
