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dvice.com - 10/20/2008

Robotic plant finds the sun, stays alive despite your neglect

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If your poor, mistreated plant had legs, it would walk itself in front of the sun and out from the dank corner that it sits, slowly drying up and dying. Unfortunately for your plant, evolution hasn't decided that legs are a priority for plants. Fortunately for it, however, we live in the age ...

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hallyutech.net - 10/16/2008

Robotic Plant, Least Useful Robot Yet?

— hallyutech.net — Perhaps sensing an over saturation in the market for useful robotics, researchers from Chonnam National University have... developed a robotic plant. Much like traditional low cost, low maintenance, natural, abundant plants the robot plant can produce ... (more) Robotic Plant, Least Useful Robot Yet?

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Robotic Legs Keep Your Plants Strutting Towards the Sunlight [Stayin' Alive]
Gizmodo — ... of these robotic legs would actually be able to walk around and find the light as it moves around the room. So, despite your best efforts to kill them, robo-plants will be stayin' alive (too bad there is no automatic watering system). Unfortunately, the device is only a concept, and there is little information on how it actually works—so your plant's dreams of making it big on Broadway may be dashed. [Play Coalition via Boing Boing Gadgets via DVICE] ...