2023-07-27

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This device corkscrews itself into the ground like a seed, and could just change the face of our planet! They are a newly created autonomous aerial seed that have some really cool and weird implications.

Huge thank you to Danli Luo for talking about this paper with me:

https://danli-luo.com/

Research paper:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05656-3

You can see more about the project here:

https://www.morphingmatter.cs.cmu.edu/projects/seed

Written by: Mitchell Moffit

Edited by: Luka Šarlija

Video footage credit:

Filming and Editing: Lining Yao, Danli Luo, Guanyun Wang. Morphing Matter Lab, Carnegie

Mellon University.

Modeling: Teng Zhang, Syracuse University

Animation: Chengyuan Wei, Morphing Program Co.

Photo Credit:

Morphing Matter Lab, Carnegie Mellon University

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