Sister blog of Physicists of the Caribbean in which I babble about non-astronomy stuff, because everyone needs a hobby

Thursday 12 July 2018

Robo-ents

Robo-ents ! I think they should combine it with the furniture that eats mice... https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2011/02/15/133432897/meat-eating-furniture
Nothing will go wrong, for sure.

What would be really interesting would be if it could be controlled by the plant directly in some way. I've no idea how it could do that though...

The resulting plant-robot hybrid looks like a leafy crab or a robot Bulbasaur. It moves toward the sunshine when needed, and it retreats to shade when it’s had enough. It’ll “play” with a human if you tap its carapace, and it can even make its needs known by performing a little stompy dance when it’s out of water. It’s not clear from Tianqi’s post how the plant actually monitors its environment, but it wouldn’t be too hard to integrate these functions with some basic light, shade, and moisture sensors.


https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2018/7/12/17563688/robot-plant-hybrid-hexa-vincross-succulent

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