The Roboplant
The roboplante, whose real name is Nomadic Plante, is an artistic project by Gilbert
Esporza.il functions as long as it finds polluted water to feed on. Thanks to microbial energy, the robot is completely autonomous. It has only one objective: to find water sources containing microbes, which it drinks voraciously.
Critics will say it's just a robot with a plant on its head; but after all, if it absorbs germs from polluted water, it still has a use, doesn't it?
Source :Gizmodo.fr/20minutes.fr/April 10, 2010
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