Venus flytrap cyborg snaps shut with commands from a smartphone

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Researchers created a plant-based robotic limb by connecting a Venus flytrap equipped with brushed electrodes to a metallic operation and wirelessly commanding it to drawback things

By Karmela Padavic-Callaghan

Venus flytraps tin beryllium tricked into snapping unopen connected command, researchers person shown, efficaciously turning them into biologic robots that tin beryllium controlled wirelessly.

The Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) is simply a carnivorous plant that catches its prey, specified arsenic flies, by snapping its circular leaves unopen astir it. The leaves’ edges are studded with bladed hairs that make electrical impulses erstwhile an insect touches them – this burst of energy causes the trap to adjacent successful arsenic small arsenic 0.1 seconds. …

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