In order to direct their growth, plants exploit water transport or osmosis within their cells. IIT's soft robot, which has a flexible polyethylene body filled with a liquid charged with ions ...

Tools that offer early and accurate insight into plant health—and allow individual plant interventions—are key to increasing ...

With a camera mounted at its foremost end, the soft robot can even grow like a plant would, by seeking and bending towards light, inflating either the top or bottom chamber more to produce a bend ...

If you have been nurturing an aloe vera plant in your home, by now, you have considered the many ways that this super ...

This remarkable device runs for two minutes on electricity supplied by the soft plant as it does its photosynthesis thing. Look at a patch of moss, and electricity is probably the last thing that ...

This week: pointy plants. Next week: Soft plants. Getting tired of the same old, same old in your yard? We asked local landscape designers what kinds of plants they'd like to see grace Tucson ...

A team of researchers has created smart, advanced materials that will be the building blocks for a future generation of soft medical microrobots ... derived from plants. This research, led ...