What every plant-lover needs.
This sun-chasing robot looks after the plant on its head
Back in school, I remember learning that plants are “heliotropic,” meaning they grow toward light. I always found this oddly touching, as if those green tendrils stretching out to the sun proved the plant was yearning to live. And why not? That is why they do it.
But what if plants could do more than stretch? What if they could move like animals, independent of their roots? Evolution hasn’t got there yet, but it turns out, humans can help. Chinese roboticist and entrepreneur Sun Tianqi has made it happen: modding a six-legged toy robot made by his company Vincross to carry a potted plant on its back....
The robo-plant hybrid can move into the sun when it needs to.
It can retreat into the shade....
And it does a little stomping dance when it needs watering....
And it's only $949 at Get HEXA. Get Robotic.