You try and you try to keep your plants well-watered and situated in the brightest spot you can find, but that darned sun has an annoying tendency to move and leave your urban foliage wilting. You could try leaving them in the window, or switching to
creepy robotic flowers,
or you could just replace your pots with PlantBot, a four-legged contraption designed to seek out the sun and plunk your plant right where it needs to be. Designed by The Play Coalition, a group of people who "love to design things that are often functional but usually just fun," it looks like something out of a woodworking-themed anime, tickling our geeky natures while exuding that undeniable aesthetic of a well-made piece of furniture -- even if not delivering quite the same level of usefulness. Alas, there's no video available of this in action, but we do have an animation of it shambling across the room waiting for you just below.
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posted Oct 21st 2008 10:09AM
The plant is gonna vomit...
Imagine an army of these!!!
An army of those might break out and start singing some disney tunes ... haven't you seen Beauty and the Beast???
Imagine an army of these start to sing disney tunes ... oh, be my guest, be my guest.....
Plantbot. Roomba. Fight.
They ended the video before the robotic vacuum cleaner came scuttling out to clean up the inevitable soil trail...
Does this mean the robot's environmental impact is pre-mitigated?
The future: Where robots have plants on their heads.
Okay, i laughed. This comment cheered me up immensely.
This is the new "Carbon Neutral"
Put a venus flytrap in this and make your own Little Shop of Horrors.
It's a synthetic triffid! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_of_the_Triffids
Now tap the photosynthesis and run that thing of the sunlight it searches. Automated survival in a can. Brilliant, I want one.
I would like to buy one, and let it shuffle it's way into the sunny part of my heart
Oh, how sweet. It's a good little plant robot.
I, for one, welcome our robotic houseplant overlords!
I, for one, think you FAIL!
Stiv, you're not doing any better.
Oh, is it okay to use the robot overlord thing again? If so, there's many better ways that one could have been written:
"I for one welcome our houseplant-carrying, sunlight-seeking, wooden leg-walking robot overlords."
"All your plants are belong to us!"
this is the thread everyone comes to when they want to fail
I wonder if it blends...
Can it play Crysis...
Now all we need is a TV-stand-bot to move itself around and avoid being blocked by the plant-bot.
lol...good one. but seriously, when it senses sunlight somewhere off the counter top or down the stairs and crawls there, will people be refunded?
Dr. Who's new foe?
Forget the plants, I am sure that my cat would knock the plant off and make themselves a bed on this. A perpetual cat nap, "Take me to your sun, Meeeooowww". I can see it now, my cats would gain more weight as they just lay there not even having to move to make a new bed someplace else in the house.
Haha, that's a cool idea. You should tell this to the guys from The Play Coalition! :D
When are cats going to realize all they have to do is ride this around for a permanent sun-nap?
Brilliant idea! I can't imagine where you came up with that one.
Is it me or does the plant seem to be running AWAY from the light
How long before this contraption emerges as an unholy melding of plant and machine? How long before we are enslaved by such unholy contraptions? And on that note, I for one welcome our light seeking plant-machine overlords.
So would two of those engage in apocalyptic battle for the brightest spot in the house? I'm sold.
Now if they can get it to scavenge for water on it's own.
Ok, but is the bot solar powered as well?
Here is the setup....I take it out and set i up outside. I sit on it and it takes me to beach...OH MY GOD..I love it!
Actually, it would just sit there in your sunny backyard.
I regret to point out that it is actually the movement of the darned earth that causes the change in the direction of light.
Oh, that darned earth. However will we stop it so that the Plantbot can keep up?
Or put up more of those giant russian space mirrors...
Bulbasaur... anyone?
What happens when this evolves?
It becomes self-sufficient and kicks you out of the house, after learning to use the sink.
Someone needs to take this technology and make it able to travel on both water and land. Then set it off on an amazing robotic journey following the sun around the world...
Very cool
Sadly, this may be the coolest thing that this company has made. Sorry , but a rubber stamp or a hoodie that turns into a bag are not revolutionary inventions.
so at night does it constantly roam your house till it find sunlight possibly hunt it's owner and in search of the sun?
Two Words: Way Cool!
I'm surprised no one has asked yet...
Is this thing solar powered, or is it going to come crashing to the
floor when it gets its legs tangled up in its own power cord?
"Judge, I don't know how this pot plant got here. Must have come looking for some sunshine".
I wonder if we could add a drip system to water them, the plant can take care of itself then!
imagine sticking an umbrella on top of it and enjoy the watch of an endless journey