David Bowen, a kinetic installation artist, has given a rhododendron a really big knife, the ability to use it, and thus a level of agency not seen in the kingdom Plantae since the Cambrian era.
Plant Machete, his most recent work, combines a woody shrub with an industrial robot arm and slaps a machete on the business end of it.On the other end, a series of electrical pickups monitor the plant’s bioelectrical signals.
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“The system uses an open source microcontroller connected to the plant to read varying resistance signals across the plant’s leaves,” Bowen wrote.
“Using custom software, these signals are mapped in real-time to the movements of the joints of the industrial robot holding a machete.”
Bowen contended that the rhododendron functions essentially as a primitive brain. And, judging by the arm’s constant hacking and slashing in the video above, that plant is going through a lot.
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