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Airicist
6th August 2013, 20:54
https://vimeo.com/71806858
FLOWER 9000
August 6, 2013
A personal project showing a robotic plant as it grows and blooms into a vibrant flower. It combines organic movement with a clean mechanical aesthetic while the glitchy music and visual effects represent the chaotic side of nature.
Airicist
22nd August 2013, 23:55
https://youtu.be/GALHb-b5060
Robot plant learns to grow like the real thing
Published on Aug 9, 2013
A new system mimics the behaviour of roots and could help create robots that can adapt to many different facets of their environment
Read more:
"Robotic plant learns to grow like the real thing (https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24018)"
by Sandrine Ceurstemont
August 9, 2013
Airicist
11th September 2013, 23:12
https://youtu.be/8QSWP56J8DA
THE SECRET WORLD OF THE PLANTS
Published on Apr 3, 2012
The secret world of plants gets us closer to these motionless and quiet creatures, so attractive and surprising as the rest of the living creatures.
The documentary reveals the most unknown aspects of the vegetable kingdom. We will learn about the secret of the eternal youth of a 3500 years old sequoia and be charmed by the 'rafflesia arnoldi' flowers, able to reach up to one meter of diameter. An exhaustive journey through the world of plants, from its domain over humid areas in mangrove covers, where they are able to live inside the water, to the most arid spots, conquered by the 'Welwitzia mirabilis', whose leaves reach up to six meter length
Airicist
18th July 2014, 19:09
https://youtu.be/bA827jFkgPY
In The Mind Of Plants (Full documentary)
Published on Feb 5, 2015
Over the recent years, a small but growing group of researchers from Austria, Germany, Italy, UK, Japan, South Africa and the USA, has developed a new scientific field of research: the neurobiology of plants. Their discoveries question the traditional boundaries set between the animal and the vegetable kingdom: plants are capable to develop the cognitive process claimed by humans and animals.
If plants can move, and feel... Could they possibly think ? In a creative and captivating scientific investigation style, through spectacular specialist photography and CGI, and re-creating scientific experiments, this documentary is bound to change your own perception of plants.
Airicist
4th February 2015, 23:52
https://vimeo.com/118730046
A cute robot that turns a plant into a house guard
February 4, 2015
Airicist
22nd March 2015, 08:55
https://vimeo.com/122803241
March 20, 2015
Airicist
7th May 2015, 13:27
https://youtu.be/mSavKdVpE20
Can Artificial Photosynthesis Save The Planet?
Published on May 6, 2015
Plants generate energy from the sun through photosynthesis. Now, researchers have created an ARTIFICIAL photosynthesis process that uses nanotechnology and biology to capture carbon before it can be emitted into the atmosphere. And while plants use this process to turn carbon dioxide and water into carbohydrates, the artificial method can use it to build acetate. From there, this system could be used to make plastics or (maybe) fuel!
Airicist
23rd August 2015, 02:29
https://youtu.be/UlZULm40TXs
Flower Robot
Published on Jun 11, 2012
Airicist
24th August 2015, 15:13
https://youtu.be/EYbcyYPkWzE
Robot Tree from Kal Spelletich (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?12284)
Uploaded on Feb 21, 2010
Motorized tree in my studio.
Have you read the book The Road by Cormac McCarthy? He has a special brand of existentialism, i rekon. My trees are partially inspired by his descriptions in it.
Airicist
26th May 2016, 20:00
https://youtu.be/aRn7mlkzZD0
Magic Garden
https://youtu.be/4JpUVVXCtOo
Blossom Robotic Flower "Bouquet"
Published on May 26, 2016
Airicist
30th June 2016, 10:11
https://youtu.be/_a0YwqUx0WA
The secret sounds of plants
Published on Jun 30, 2016
A small device could let researchers, farmers and amateur plant lovers listen in to electrical changes inside their plants – but what do they mean?
Airicist
8th September 2016, 22:42
http://vimeo.com/181989338
Making of the Sunbot
from Kathleen McDermott
September 8, 2016
Some video footage showing the process of making the Sunbot, with subtitles that are hopefully helpful if you plan to recreate it. More information, including photos and code can be found at kthartic.com (instructions for Sunbot). This by no means a perfect bot! Feel free to make it better : ).
Airicist
31st October 2016, 19:04
https://youtu.be/q4WsCMLnfvo
Plant-to-human communication
Published on Oct 31, 2016
MIT engineers have transformed spinach plants into sensors that can detect explosives and wirelessly relay that information to a handheld device similar to a smartphone.
"Nanobionic spinach plants can detect explosives (http://news.mit.edu/2016/nanobionic-spinach-plants-detect-explosives-1031)"
After sensing dangerous chemicals, the carbon-nanotube-enhanced plants send an alert.
by Anne Trafton
October 31, 2016
Airicist
23rd December 2016, 01:18
https://youtu.be/PE6N6gQ9x4I
Artificial leaf as mini-factory for medicine
Published on Dec 21, 2016
To produce medicine sustainably and cheaply, anywhere you want. Whether in the middle of the jungle or even on Mars. A ‘mini-factory’ whereby sunlight can be captured to make chemical products. Inspired by the art of nature where leaves are able to collect enough sunlight to produce food, chemical engineers at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) have presented such a scenario.
"Artificial leaf as mini-factory for medicine (https://phys.org/news/2018-04-artificial-leaf-mini-factory-medicine.html)"
April 24, 2018
Airicist
21st September 2017, 21:17
https://youtu.be/pLeSWpe-WN0
Robot flower
Published on Sep 21, 2017
Light sensitive robotic flower I made many years ago (still works!)
Airicist
26th October 2018, 20:50
https://youtu.be/WhHnwx0cyAY
Android Things presents: Machine Learning Flowers
Published on Oct 26, 2018
Learn how Googlers worked to build a garden of Machine Learning powered flowers, each uniquely designed to showcase the power of machine learning, Android Things on-device processing, and robotics capabilities. You’ll quickly learn about the two types of flowers (Continuum and Emotion), how each was built, and how you can build a similar flower at home!
Airicist
25th November 2019, 09:44
https://youtu.be/fQM_yjLjMpg
Growing robot
Nov 20, 2019
"Flexible yet sturdy robot is designed to “grow” like a plant (http://news.mit.edu/2019/robot-grow-like-plant-1107)"
Its extendable appendage can meander through tight spaces and then lift heavy loads.
by Jennifer Chu
November 7, 2019