Plant robotics shows how living movement and sensing can power biodegradable machines that work with natural environments, ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- These gardeners would have green thumbs -- if they had thumbs. A class of undergraduates at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has created a set of robots that can water, ...

Researchers in China have developed a robot that identifies different plant species at various stages of growth by “touching” their leaves with an electrode. The robot can measure properties such as ...

BEIJING, China - A newly created robot plant makes it easy for you to exercise your green thumb: It will chase the sunlight, run to shade, dance when it's doing well and stomp when it needs to be ...

Trovador is the name of Bernardino and Mendonça’s robot, a six-legged creation enabled with artificial intelligence to ...

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Gone are the days where you have to manually move your plant on and off the windowsill by hand. Now, there’s a robot that will do it for you! The HEXA Plant is a six-legged machine designed to carry a ...

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Engineers have developed a robot designed to extend a chain-like appendage flexible enough to twist and turn in any necessary configuration, yet rigid enough to support heavy loads or apply torque to ...

Patrolling nuclear power plants for radiation leaks is dangerous work even for robots. Luckily, should any of the tiny robots designed by MIT engineers meet an untimely end while swimming through some ...