Heliotropis, a solar powered kinetic sculpture that imitates behavior of plants

Posted on 18 January 2010

If you watch how particular plant is living mostly from solar energy and water you’d see how amazing all this is. Humans have always tried to create an imitation of a plant but they never succeed. Imagine how it would be good to have some kind of a robotic plant that will effectively convert solar energy into some other kind of energy that we can use.HelioTropis05d []

Heliotropis is a solar powered kinetic sculpture that imitates behavior of plants. It collects solar energy and uses it to open and close the glass petals during the daylight.

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