The cyborg plant is not a new concept. The robot plant replacement is even less new: you can buy one for $4.19 from ThinkGeek, after all. But a team at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich isn't interested in solar-powered plastic toys or surgically-altered self-lighting plants that hang on a wall - they're giving plants the ability to feed, water, and sun themselves, by augmenting them with iRobot technology and wheels.
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