By Morgan Richards
Cute right?
This little robot is taking the internet by storm with the fact that it is the perfect guardian for your plants. Hexa is the adorable robot designed by Tianqi's robotics company Vincross. Hexa has two different built in cameras; one 720p camera with night vision and an infrared camera.
These cameras make it so Hexa can move your beloved plant into the best section of sunlight available in your home and it also knows when to move away from the sunlight when the plant had enough. In each leg Hexa has three motors which make its angry little dance extra sweet, it does this dance to alert you when the plant it’s carrying needs watering. In fact, 19 servos overall assisting with its movements. The exact working of the robot and how it knows when the plan needs water, sunlight or shade hasn't been fully disclosed by the creator but it’s a reasonable assumption that it’s got a series of sensors to monitor the moisture levels of the plant. Alongside keeping your plant alive Hexa can also ‘play’ with humans that interact with it when tapped on its outer shell, it plays by touching a person's outstretched hands, adorable right?
The inspiration behind Hexa came from the creator seeing a sunflower had died only a few meters away from sunlight that would have kept it alive, this got the creator thinking about how human development could help the nature in our planet, especially since plants are the most passive and least mobile of all natural things, they are basically completely immobile so giving them the mobility they need to survive is almost like giving back to nature. In nature some plants or trees have a very small mobility in the form of growing towards sunlight but that's a very slow process, despite how slow it is to move its still mobility which house plants don’t have since they are often put in spots with unreliable amounts of sunlight.
Hexa is a modern looking little robot that would deeply innovate plants lives in our homes and I’d honestly love to have one, wouldn’t you?
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