Robotic Seeding

As part of our ongoing research program on ecological applications for robots, we developed process for the paste-based extrusion of seeds that enables millimeter precision seeding with high germination rates. We presented a demonstration at the Association of Computing Machinery’s CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems on May 2, 2022 in New Orleans.

Team: Hye Yeon Nam & Brendan Harmon

System: UR10e with PotterBot extruder and Arduino microcontroller

Demo: Harmon, Brendan A, Hye Yeon Nam, Hunter Gilbert, and Nasrin Iravani. 2022. “Living Typography: Robotically Printing a Living Typeface”. In: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts. New Orleans, LA, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. url: https://doi.org/10.1145/3491101.3519894.