ReviewFrontiers in robotics and AI2020
The Bio-Engineering Approach for Plant Investigations and Growing Robots. A Mini-Review.
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- Plant Robotics for Sustainable and Environmentally Friendly Robots: Insights from Actuation Characteristics.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Review
- Bioinspired growable humanoid robot with bone-mimetic linkages for versatile mobility.Science advances · 2026Article
- Fibrous contextual embodiments formed by task-invariant continuous blow spinning in dynamic environments.Frontiers in robotics and AI · 2026Article
- Bioinspired Drilling for Extraterrestrial Applications.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Tip-Growing Robots: Design, Theory, Application.IEEE transactions on robotics : a publication of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society · 2025Article
- Advances in Climbing Robots for Vertical Structures in the Past Decade: A Review.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Editorial: Focus on methods: neural algorithms for bio-inspired robotics.Frontiers in neurorobotics · 2023Article
- Microspines in tropical climbing plants: a small-scale fix for life in an obstacle course.Journal of experimental botany · 2022Article
- Novel Motion Sequences in Plant-Inspired Robotics: Combining Inspirations from Snap-Trapping in Two Plant Species into an Artificial Venus Flytrap Demonstrator.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Benchmarking organic electrochemical transistors for plant electrophysiology.Frontiers in plant science · 2022Article
- Morphological Computation in Plant Seeds for a New Generation of Self-Burial and Flying Soft Robots.Frontiers in robotics and AI · 2021Review
- Enacting Plant-Inspired Robotics.Frontiers in neurorobotics · 2021Article
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Abstract
It has been 10 years since the publication of the first article looking at plants as a biomechatronic system and as model for robotics. Now, roboticists have started to look at plants differently and consider them as a model in the field of bioinspired robotics. Despite plants have been seen traditionally as passive entities, in reality they are able to grow, move, sense, and communicate. These features make plants an exceptional example of morphological computation - with probably the highest level of adaptability among all living beings. They are a unique model to design robots that can act in- and adapt to- unstructured, extreme, and dynamically changing environments exposed to sudden or long-term events. Although plant-inspired robotics is still a relatively new field, it has triggered the concept of growing robotics: an emerging area in which systems are designed to create their own body, adapt their morphology, and explore different environments. There is a reciprocal interest between biology and robotics: plants represent an excellent source of inspiration for achieving new robotic abilities, and engineering tools can be used to reveal new biological information. This way, a bidirectional biology-robotics strategy provides mutual benefits for both disciplines. This mini-review offers a brief overview of the fundamental aspects related to a
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