Watch | Scientists develop ‘robo-plants’ to interact with plants
The Hindu
A video on 'robo-plants', a high-tech system for communicating with vegetation.
Scientists from Singapore are closely working on ‘robo-plants’, an experiment they call a fusion of nature and technology. They attached electrodes to a Venus flytrap plant. The electrodes are film-like and soft and fit tightly to the plant's surface. They are attached using a ‘thermogel’, which is liquid at low temperatures but turns into a gel at room temperature. These electrodes are capable of monitoring weak electrical pulses naturally emitted by plants. (Subscribe to Science For All, our weekly newsletter, where we aim to take the jargon out of science and put the fun in. .)
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