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Researchers from Morphing Matter Lab at Carnegie Mellon University have created an “e-seed” carrier that can be dropped by drones to drill seeds into the soil.

FibeRobo is a liquid crystal elastomer fiber that can change its shape in response to thermal stimuli. Compatible with existing textile manufacturing machinery, it could be used to make morphing textiles, like a jacket that changes its insulating properties.

"I would totally buy these ... it would be such a fun experience.”

The exhibition presents various systems of self-morphing materials, which are at the very forefront of science, imitating material processes that occur in nature so as to grow and develop.

New soft robots can shift from walking to swimming. They could one day be used in rescue situations or to interact with sea animals or coral.

Engineers have developed wooden seed carriers that mimic the behavior of self-burying seeds.

A genus of plants has inspired a new engineered seed carrier that can successfully bury itself down in the soil like a corkscrew 80% of the time.

The seed carriers can be sprayed from above and coil and uncoil depending on the humidity in the air

Dropped over their target by drone, dozens of tiny wooden "robots" twirl through the air in a balletic freefall before hitting the ground, where the work

Dropped over their target by drone, dozens of tiny wooden "robots" twirl through the air in a balletic freefall before hitting the ground, where the work begins for these experimental self-burying seeds…