Researchers at the Korean Chonnam National University have developed a robotic plant which emits Oxygen. Perhaps a future solution to the rapid deforestation going on at present, the robot is around 4 feet tall, and unlike its biological counterpart, responds and interacts with your presence.
Engadget reports:
As people approach the “flower,” the robot bends towards the person and begins to bloom and slightly shake in response to the startled victim’s voice rising from a mute whimper to an alarmist howl. The robot also responds to music and light by dancing and opening and closing its petals in some kind of victory celebration.
[via Engadget]
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The big question is how much power does it truly consume. Dancing flowers are nice and all, but this sounds potentially detrimental even if its pumping oxygen out. Maybe im old fashioned, but there is nothing like a real seedling…
October 16th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
Of course, you’d have to buy every single robot plant…whereas plants reproduce themselves through nanotech. Seeds are still the most sophisticated design artifact on Earth.
October 16th, 2008 at 8:23 pm
The big question is how much power does it truly consume. Dancing flowers are nice and all, but this sounds potentially detrimental even if its pumping oxygen out. Maybe im old fashioned, but there is nothing like a real seedling…
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October 17th, 2008 at 4:22 am
wow, maybe it can be a christmas gift.
November 13th, 2008 at 11:31 pm