Center for Micro-BioRobotics, Italian Institute of Technology, Pisa, Italy.
Plant Signal Behav. 2010 Feb;5(2):90-3. doi: 10.4161/psb.5.2.10457. Epub 2010 Feb 26.
Our vision of plants is changing dramatically: from insensitive and static objects to complex living beings able to sense the environment and to use the information collected to adapt their behaviour. At all times humans imitate ideas and concepts from nature to resolve technological problems. Solutions coming from plants have the potential to face challenges and difficulties of modern engineering design. Characteristic concepts of the plant world such as reiteration, modularity and swarm behaviour could be of great help resolving technological problems. On the other hand a biorobotic approach would facilitate the resolution of many biological problems. In this paper, the concept of a plant-inspired robot is proposed for the investigation of both biological and technological issues.
从没有感觉和静态的物体变成了能够感知环境并利用收集到的信息来适应行为的复杂生物。人类一直在模仿自然的想法和概念来解决技术问题。来自植物的解决方案有可能应对现代工程设计的挑战和困难。植物世界的特征概念，如重复、模块化和群体行为，对于解决技术问题有很大的帮助。另一方面，仿生机器人的方法将有助于解决许多生物学问题。在本文中，提出了一种受植物启发的机器人的概念，用于研究生物学和技术问题。
