TY - JOUR
T1 - A perspective on plant robotics
T2 - from bioinspiration to hybrid systems
AU - Meder, Fabian
AU - Baytekin, Bilge
AU - Del Dottore, Emanuela
AU - Meroz, Yasmine
AU - Tauber, Falk
AU - Walker, Ian
AU - Mazzolai, Barbara
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 The Author(s). Published by IOP Publishing Ltd.
PY - 2023/1/1
Y1 - 2023/1/1
N2 - As miscellaneous as the Plant Kingdom is, correspondingly diverse are the opportunities for taking inspiration from plants for innovations in science and engineering. Especially in robotics, properties like growth, adaptation to environments, ingenious materials, sustainability, and energy-effectiveness of plants provide an extremely rich source of inspiration to develop new technologies—and many of them are still in the beginning of being discovered. In the last decade, researchers have begun to reproduce complex plant functions leading to functionality that goes far beyond conventional robotics and this includes sustainability, resource saving, and eco-friendliness. This perspective drawn by specialists in different related disciplines provides a snapshot from the last decade of research in the field and draws conclusions on the current challenges, unanswered questions on plant functions, plant-inspired robots, bioinspired materials, and plant-hybrid systems looking ahead to the future of these research fields.
AB - As miscellaneous as the Plant Kingdom is, correspondingly diverse are the opportunities for taking inspiration from plants for innovations in science and engineering. Especially in robotics, properties like growth, adaptation to environments, ingenious materials, sustainability, and energy-effectiveness of plants provide an extremely rich source of inspiration to develop new technologies—and many of them are still in the beginning of being discovered. In the last decade, researchers have begun to reproduce complex plant functions leading to functionality that goes far beyond conventional robotics and this includes sustainability, resource saving, and eco-friendliness. This perspective drawn by specialists in different related disciplines provides a snapshot from the last decade of research in the field and draws conclusions on the current challenges, unanswered questions on plant functions, plant-inspired robots, bioinspired materials, and plant-hybrid systems looking ahead to the future of these research fields.
KW - actuation
KW - autonomy
KW - biohybrid systems
KW - bioinspiration
KW - energy
KW - materials science
KW - robotics
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U2 - 10.1088/1748-3190/aca198
DO - 10.1088/1748-3190/aca198
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C2 - 36351300
AN - SCOPUS:85142939403
SN - 1748-3182
VL - 18
JO - Bioinspiration and Biomimetics
JF - Bioinspiration and Biomimetics
IS - 1
M1 - 015006
ER -