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Living plant controls a machete through an industrial robot arm
- OkGoDoIt 4y agoThis installation enables a live plant to control a machete. Plant machete has a control system that reads and utilizes the electrical noises found in a live philodendron. The system uses an open source micro-controller connected to the plant to read varying resistance signals across the plant’s leaves. Using custom software, these signals are mapped in real-time to the movements of the joints of the industrial robot holding a machete. In this way, the movements of the machete are determined based on input from the plant. (from the twitter description, not my words)
- JetAlone 4y agoInteresting... Next step, using natural selection, how good of a fencer can a cyborg plant become?