This device corkscrews itself into the ground like a seed, and could just change the face of our planet! They are a newly created autonomous aerial seed that have some really cool and weird implications.

Huge thank you to Danli Luo for talking about this paper with me:
https://danli-luo.com/

Research paper:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4158...

You can see more about the project here:
https://www.morphingmatter.cs.cmu.edu...

Written by: Mitchell Moffit
Edited by: Luka Šarlija

Video footage credit:
Filming and Editing: Lining Yao, Danli Luo, Guanyun Wang. Morphing Matter Lab, Carnegie
Mellon University.
Modeling: Teng Zhang, Syracuse University
Animation: Chengyuan Wei, Morphing Program Co.

Photo Credit:
Morphing Matter Lab, Carnegie Mellon University

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