Planetoid robot tree with many practical applications
ANSA news agency said, the features of this robot is that it can respond to interact with the external conditions such as soil moisture, air, climate ... and is likely to grow as the real Can life really.
The "hardware" as the body of the tree canopy is made of 3D printing technology has the ability to react and pulled through the custom spread environmental conditions.
Completed tree robot Plantoid
Tree robot Italy Institute of Technology (IIT). (Source: ANSA)
On each root is equipped with sensors, "smart" to analyze the quality of soil and potentially longer 2mm / s if favorable external stimuli.
It is noteworthy that the roots are manufactured with a new material, with the ability to develop strong and durable as it's roots in the ground.
Coordinator of the project "Plantoid," said Barbara Mazzolai, the next time there will be five sample trees robot is born, simultaneously, a software simulation of the natural response of roots in each thing specific environmental conditions to study independently or in interaction relationship between the trees.
The application of robot is very diverse crops in the field of environmental studies, botany and agriculture.
Project "Plantoid" by the European Commission funded with $ 1.6 million worth of euros and get the cooperation of the University of Florence, Institute of bioengineers and Catalunya University of Lausanne. /.
