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Singapore researchers control Venus flytrap using smartphone
- Wednesday | 12th May, 2021
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – 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. “Plants are like humans, they generate electric signals, like the ECG (electrocardiogram) from our hearts,” said Luo, who works at NTU’s School of Materials Science and Engineering. “We developed a non-invasive technology to detect these electric signals from the surface of plants without damaging them,” Luo said. 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. “If the plant can talk back to us, maybe growing all these plants may be even easier,” he says.
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