{"id":248237,"date":"2021-05-12T20:49:12","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T17:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/singapore-researchers-control-venus-flytraps-using-smartphones\/"},"modified":"2021-05-12T20:49:12","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T17:49:12","slug":"singapore-researchers-control-venus-flytraps-using-smartphones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/singapore-researchers-control-venus-flytraps-using-smartphones\/","title":{"rendered":"#Singapore researchers control Venus flytraps using smartphones"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Researchers in Singapore have found a way of controlling a Venus flytrap using electric signals from a smartphone, an innovation they hope will have a range of uses from robotics to employing the plants as environmental sensors.<\/p>\n

Luo Yifei, a researcher at Singapore\u2019s Nanyang Technological University (NTU), showed in a demonstration how a signal from a smartphone app<\/a> sent to tiny electrodes attached to the plant could make its trap close as it does when catching a fly.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlants are like humans, they generate electric signals, like the ECG (electrocardiogram) from our hearts,\u201d said Luo, who works at NTU\u2019s School of Materials Science<\/a> and Engineering.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe developed a non-invasive technology<\/a> to detect these electric signals from the surface of plants without damaging them,\u201d Luo said.<\/p>\n

The scientists have also detached the trap portion of the Venus flytrap and attached it to a robotic arm so it can, when given a signal, grip something thin and light like a piece of wire.<\/p>\n

In this way, the plant could be used as a \u201csoft robot\u201d, the scientists say, to pick up fragile things that might be damaged by industrial grippers, as well as being more environmentally friendly.<\/p>\n

Communication between humans and plants is not necessarily entirely one-way.<\/p>\n

The NTU research team hopes their technology can be used to detect signals from plants about abnormalities or potential diseases before full-blown symptoms appear.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are exploring using plants as living sensors to monitor environmental pollution like gas, toxic gas, or water pollution,\u201d said Luo, who stressed there was a long way to go before such plant technology could be used commercially.<\/p>\n

But for Darren Ng, an enthusiast of the carnivorous plants and founder of SG VenusFlytrap, a group that sells the plants and offers care tips, the research is welcome.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the plant can talk back to us, maybe growing all these plants may be even easier,\u201d he says.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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