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 ...

Finding a balance of hard water and soft water can sometimes be a factor, too. So, how do you know whether watering indoor plants with soft or hard water is better, or even which type of water you ...