{"id":122511,"date":"2021-05-12T11:22:29","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T18:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/singapore-researchers-control-venus-flytraps-using-smartphones"},"modified":"2021-05-12T11:22:29","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T18:22:29","slug":"singapore-researchers-control-venus-flytraps-using-smartphones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/singapore-researchers-control-venus-flytraps-using-smartphones","title":{"rendered":"Singapore researchers control Venus flytraps using smartphones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/singapore-researchers-control-venus-flytraps-using-smartphones2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers in Singapore have found a way of controlling a Venus flytrap using electric signals from a smartphone, an innovation they hope will have a range of uses from robotics to employing the plants as environmental sensors.<\/p>\n<p>Luo Yifei, a researcher at Singapore\u2019s Nanyang Technological University (NTU), showed in a demonstration how a signal from a smartphone app sent to tiny electrodes attached to the plant could make its trap close as it does when catching a fly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlants are like humans, they generate electric signals, like the ECG (electrocardiogram) from our hearts,\u201d said Luo, who works at NTU\u2019s School of Materials Science and Engineering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers in Singapore have found a way of controlling a Venus flytrap using electric signals from a smartphone, an innovation they hope will have a range of uses from robotics to employing the plants as environmental sensors. Luo Yifei, a researcher at Singapore\u2019s Nanyang Technological University (NTU), showed in a demonstration how a signal from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}