Living plant controls a machete through an industrial robot arm
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This installation enables a live plant to control a machete. plant machete has a control system that reads and utilizes the electrical noises found in a live philodendron. The system uses an open source micro-controller connected to the plant to read varying resistance signals +
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across the plant’s leaves. Using custom software, these signals are mapped in real-time to the movements of the joints of the industrial robot holding a machete. In this way, the movements of the machete are determined based on input from the plant. +
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Essentially the plant is the brain of the robot controlling the machete determining how it swings, jabs, slices and interacts in space.
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I need my robot videos to have some terrifying extreme human skill that makes me feel like we’ve already lost the robot war, like moving crazy fast or insane accuracy
This just doesn’t instill the fear I seek
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the plant cannot possibly know that it's "thoughts" (vibes) are controlling the arm, or even that the arm exists, which makes this about as impressive as a robotic arm controlled by a random number generator.
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