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Flower Robots For Your Home
Roland Piquepaille writes "Flower robots are not new, and some have already been developed in the US. Now, South Korean researchers have created a robotic plant which acts like real ones. This robot has humidifying, oxygen-producing, aroma-emitting, and kinetic functions. It is about 1.30 meters tall and 40 centimeters in diameter. The robotic plant can interact with people when they approach, and it can 'dance' when music is played. The researchers don't say when a commercial version of their flowers will come to the market. They also don't mention a retail price."
>The researchers don't say when a commercial version of their flowers will come to the market. They also don't mention a retail price
So it's not really for 'your home' then, is it?
Always proofread carefully to see if you any words out.
I suspect that it's a new way to sell us the kind of humidifier/sensitizers that you just plug.
On another hand that robotic flower who interacts and dance with people would just fit perfectly fine with my cluster of singing basses who are pinned on the wall "taake me to the river"...
Real plants don't do those things. You should describe it the other way around. (plant like qualities as an extra only)
I had another idea, we could conceal these things in some sort of an upright tube. When it detects someone nearby it would pop out and open it's big petals... Hmmm..
I, for one, welcome our new humidifying, oxygen-producing, aroma-emitting, and kinetic functioning flower robot overlords!
They want their dancing flowers and coke cans back.
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" The robotic plant can interact with people when they approach, and it can 'dance' when music is played. "
Little shop of Horrors
But they forget to mention that they can walk by themselves and can spit poison that can blind a person.
Task Mangler
You can get an electronic fish that turns its head outwards and wiggles on its trophy plaque while singing kitschy cover songs.
Seriously, is there anything they don't want to turn into a robot?
Reminds me of the new Philips Ligt Blossom flower (pictures) running on sun- and windenergy. What is it that happy flowers - or actually, nature - are inspiring those designers? I think the future might be the a mixture of technology and natural looking devices.
To repeat what others have said, requires education, to challenge it , requires brains.
Great, so now instead of planting flowers and trees that will form Glucose, give us Oxygen, supply all higher lifeforms and save the world every household will have a mechanical machine that will use up precious energy and resources. Sign me up!
Why have a living, breathing flower in a pot when you can have a pretend one that wastes so much more energy? Who wouldn't want that?
With such thick stems it looks like robot is more inspired by anime tentacle rape than actual organic flowers!
Looks like a solution in need of a problem to me. Real plants fulfil their functions just fine. And they look better.
...can't resist... must obey... help!
please *sweat...
...must do it..
i, for one, welcome our new robotic overlords
ah, that was tough...
South Korean researchers have created a robotic plant which acts like real ones.
The robotic plant can interact with people when they approach, and it can 'dance' when music is played.
I guess it's now actually safe to say that Asia is just simply not like the rest of the world, apparently even down to plant-life.
Do they also run on water and carbon dioxide?
c++;
Pet robot rock! It can... uh...
FTA, âoeIt's a fresh attempt to introduce the concept of plants, rather than humans or animals, to robot making."
That concept sounds as interesting as watching grass grow. Maybe they are trying to put a new twist on robot wars with a match between the synthetic grass cluster and the Robo Mower.
In the other news, robot fishes are reported to sing loud protests against roboplants that are invading their territory.
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It behaves just like a real rock. It's really low on maintenance, is has solar cells to recharge itself, but it can last for months on a single charge. It is perfect for a hi-tech Japanese rock garden.
ps, I already filed the patent.
I heard the next project is "Goatsebot: the final stretch". Either that or the "Rickroll Overlord".
It's not all bad news, however. One of these days they'll create robotic girlfriends, for Slashdot users. The burning question is it really losing your virginity, if it was lost to a robot? Apparently, Nelson Mandela is investing the funds from his Thieving Coat and Alcopops ranges into this project.
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What kind of plants do they keep around there! Do they also eat meat and sing like Levi Stubbs?
Remember kids, never feed a plant that moves on its own and likes the taste of blood.
Paul Leader
Seriously, someone has actually created a game of catch on the Wii.
He said it was because...
Simulated catch, robot dogs, and now robot plants.
At the risk of sounding all "get of my lawn", this kind of thing is pretty depressing.
Paul Leader
It has humidifying, oxygen-producing, aroma-emitting, and kinetic functions.
But can it feel love and love you in return?
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
Cacti.
Smivs on the intertubes!
Wait, what is wrong with buying a ficus plant or a cactus again? Oh right, ficus can't be modded to run Linux.
Yet.
If you don't know what you're doing, you can't make mistakes.
I think I've found the answer, Fossil Plants!
Smivs on the intertubes!
Danger, Geoff Hamilton!
"Why does your house smell like Cow Shit?"
"Damnit, I need to reboot my robotic flowers again."
These things were obviously designed as topical enemies for Plant Man's stage. Was, by chance, funding for them provided by a certain "Mr. X"?
USE HOT GRITS WITH STATUE OF NATALIE PORTMAN (NAKED AND PETRIFIED)
I want a robotic plant that's bright red, 600 feet high and smells terrible.
If it can dance, that's a bonus.
Do the robotic flowers absorb more CO2 and emit more oxygen than what is required to produce, power, and when they break down, recycle them ?
Didn't think so. I'll take real flowers, kthxbye.
What a depressingly stupid machine.
From the article:
When a person comes within a 40 cm radius of the flower, its supersonic sensor perceives the approach, the stem bends towards the person, and the buds come into full bloom.
It can go supersonic within 40 cm? How about the buds come into full bloom and impale themselves in the approaching person?
What?
And when are they going to invent a robot to take care of my real plants?
Normally I ascribe all life to intelligent design, but in your case I'll make an exception.
Profit!!!
Tsukasa: All I really want, is to be left alone...
Anyone else remember the Dr. Who episodes about The Autons? Creepy creatures that were plastic and were trying to take over the Earth by running plastic injection molding companies that were actually cranking out millions of Autons and selling them as clothing store dummies, telephone cords, baby dolls, and most critically, decorative plastic flowers?
Those episodes got the producers in trouble with the British Government, as I recall, because they scared kids so badly that parents were out in the streets protesting. I can see why, too: the scenes where the baby dolls came alive and were strangling people, the flowers were blowing plastic gunk over people's faces that asphyxiated them, and particularly the one where all the showroom dummies on Bond Street busted out through the showroom windows and started gunning everyone down in the middle of the street, were as good as any horror movie.
Plastic flowers *still* give me the creeps, 30 years after I saw those episodes.
Nostalgia's not what it used to be.
Now, when a post is folded on the front page, you have to register but when clicking the topic itself you can read it?
What was those plus and minus for?
Piss us off?
It's a robot(ic) flower, not a flower robot.
They're the ones that look like potted plants - but when you get close enough the flower launches off the pot and homes in on you with its rockets... And meanwhile the pot sprouts another plant. You can shoot down all the flowers you want, but to stop 'em you've got to kill the pot...
It was on the Hornet Man stage, I think...
Bow-ties are cool.
Do they have pollens to make me sneeze? :P
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'It acts like a real plant'. 'It dances when you play music to it'. Makes you wonder if these guys have ever *seen* a real plant ?!
Religion is what happens when nature strikes and groupthink goes wrong.
It takes your picture and prints it out.
Why buy it when you can build it? Oh yeah, the brain of the unit is a Qwerk which means you can really hack it to respond to all sorts of things.
Am I the only one who immediately thought this could lead to another remake of Little Shop of Horrors?
Recharge me, Seymour!
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