Taryn Bauerle, connect teacher of horticulture, holds three associated with earthworm-shaped robots that she and a multidisciplinary group developed utilizing a biomimicry approach. The robots, that may have attached water sensors to collect information from soil, can burrow in to the ground, comparable to earthworms, in a far more natural manner and with less interruption than shoveling.

Crossing boundaries: Cornell’s thriving research ecosystem

By Melanie Lefkowitz |

Bauerle, connect teacher of horticulture when you look at the university of Agriculture and Life Sciences’ School of Integrative Plant Science (SIPS), studies how root systems respond to thirst. Continua a leggere