E-SEED: Self-burying Seed Carrier
By Danli Luo, Aditi Maheshwari, Andreea Danielescu, Jiaqi Li, Yue Yang, Ye Tao, Lingyun Sun, Dinesh K. Patel, Guanyun Wang*, Shu Yang*, Teng Zhang*, Lining Yao*. DOI | Nature cover story | Nature News | Nature Video Freely access the paper online | Media Package Download
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Collaborative Institutes: Morphing Matter Lab, Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University (Leading) Syracuse University University of Pennsylvania Accenture Labs Zhejiang University
The self-burying seed carrier can be used to deliver functional devices, such as sensors, fertilizers and different plant seeds.
We conducted five outdoor drilling experiments with 136 three-tailed seed carriers in two geographical locations over two springs.
