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Cyborg Venus flytraps are here. Don’t worry, they’re not hostile – Digital Trends
It sounds a whole lot like Little Shop of Horrors, as remade by roboticists. It could turn out to be pretty useful, though.
Just when you think youve seen it all, a university in Singapore comes along and creates a half-robot, half-plant Venus flytrap cyborg. Thats what researchers at Nanyang Technological University recently built — and, while its unnerving and impressive in equal measure, it could also turn out to be surprisingly useful.
A Venus flytrap is pretty cool in its own right. A rare example of a carnivorous plant that gains part of its nutrients from munching on insects and spiders, the Venus flytrap resembles…
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