prismatic-bell:

fictionalsadist:

solarpunk-aesthetic:

This adorable little robot is designed to make sure its photosynthesising passenger is well taken care of. It moves towards brighter light if it needs, or hides in the shade to keep cool. When in the light, it rotates to make sure the plant gets plenty of illumination. It even likes to play with humans.

Oh, and apparently, it gets antsy when it’s thirsty.

The robot is actually an art project called “Sharing Human Technology with Plants” by a roboticist named Sun Tianqi. It’s made from a modified version of a Vincross HEXA robot, and in his own words, its purpose is “to explore the relationship between living beings and robots.”

I don’t care if it’s silly. I want one.

Okay @astralmaenad I every time I see this post all I can think about is this little robot taking up the place of honor in Yami’s garden and being named “Little Seth” and Mokuba getting high fived for telling people he named it that because “he gets‘ a antsy when thirsty”

There is an entire Junji Ito graphic novel about why this is a bad idea.