Venus Flytrap Featured on Website
The website Nanowerk, which focuses on nanotechnology issues, has a report on the robotic Venus flytrap created by Mohsen Shahinpoor, Richard C. Hill Professor and chair of UMaine’s mechanical engineering department. The robotic Venus flytrap has with nanosensors and a thin, pliable metal composite material that he invented as part of his ongoing artificial muscle research, according to the article.
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