“In the U.S. it seems that a lot of government-funded robotics research is geared around possible military applications. In Europe, on the other hand, things seem a little bit … less aggressive.”
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“How does your garden grow? Flora Robotica explores potential of robo plants”
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“Robots as builders in sustainable plant architecture”
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“flora robotica: Roboterschwärme als Baumeister nachhaltiger Pflanzenarchitektur”
Prof. Heiko Hamann will edit the new Frontiers Research Topic Plant-inspired Robotics and Bio-hybrid Societies: Applications of Plant and Animal Intelligence in Technological Systems, in Frontiers in Robotics and AI and Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology.
flora robotica partner Cybertronica has been nominated for the EU Innovation Radar Prize 2016, for their work on biomass sensing. “Biomass sensing technology is based on the property of biological objects (plants, animals, insects) to change electric fields in the environment or generated by the sensor itself.”
