Posted on 07/29/2018 10:04:22 PM PDT by vannrox
Imagine a happy pot plant walking around your home.
First thing I thought, is homeless people liking the feeling of being a plant - laying about rooted to the ground, withering away towards death. I'd rather give plants the ability to be more like animals than waste resources on homeless bums.
Hillary needs one to go up and down stairs.
Now what does this robot have to do with plants, besides carrying one? I wanted to see a walking plant.
Not supposed to make up titles:
Remaking “Sharing Human Technology with Plants” with HEXA
That is both ingenious and odd to the point of being alarming. I don’t want the plant life around me to become overly sentient. There are already plants and flowers that aggressively seek the sun. They will twist, turn and entangle their stem shafts to continue the photosynthesis.
Even your back yard Morning Glory vine will do that right now.
I don’t want them becoming too demanding.
It will be like that giant Venue Fly Trap in a Steve Martin movie. “Feed me!!”
I also expected some sort of bi-pod stepping out of it’s little clay pot. Skittering across the wooden floor to the sunny window.
I'm not going to get too excited until they develop a taste for people.
That’s what I was picturing and yes, dreading.
I think it’s from the movie I spoke of.
I can’t recall the name of the film. It was a musical.
Yeah - that’s what I was hoping for too. (Or fearing that it was!)
Still - a useful device with some pretty basic sensors I would think. Although I think an even simpler mode of transportation could have been used. (Except then I suppose one couldn’t “play” with it as well.)
Gotta say I’m a little disappointed. I was thinking more along the lines of “The Day of the Triffids.”
Am unsure. Probably some kind of random program instructions. Not really taking input from the plant....but when the thing has been in the sun and overheats....it’ll go cool off
Fail to see how this thing interfaces with plants.
I’d pay for a static planter for tomatoes that has automatic bb guns that shoost squirrels.
I saw no mention of how this contraption taps into whatever passes for the plant's nervous system to determine whether the plant wants to move into the sun or the shade or is thirsty or is happy or sad. If it could actually do that, it might have agricultural uses, although that goal can be achieved more simply with existing technology.
kudzu on the move
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