Dr Barbara Mazzolai, an expert in biorobotics, tells us about creating the first artificial plant tendril that can climb and reverse its movements through hydraulics. Plants move at a much slower rate ...

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Researchers at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia obtained the first artificial plant tendrils: it is a soft robot able to curl and climb, using the same physical principles of water transport in plants; ...

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Plants might not seem like the most exciting thing to model robots after, but they could make for high-tech decorations or house plants that look after themselves. Now, a team of Italian researchers ...

Jan. 24 (UPI) --Engineers in Italy have designed the world's first tendril-like soft robot. Like vines and other climbing plants, the slender, soft-bodied robot wraps itself around objects to pull ...

"Growing things vertically increases the amount of plants that you can grow in your garden," says J. Richard Huff of Cleveland Heights. He and his wife, Mahala, do not have a small yard, but their ...

Why can climbing plants twine around thin canes, but not around trees? This question has been playing on the minds of mathematicians in the US and France, who now claim to be able to predict the ...

Researchers have made the first soft robot mimicking plant tendrils: it is able to curl and climb, using the same physical principles determining water transport in plants. In the future this ...

In the future this tendril-like soft robot could inspire the development of wearable devices, such as soft braces, able to actively morph their shape. The tendril-like soft robot is able to curl ...