---
_id: '19960'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: Besides the life-as-it-could-be driver of artificial life research there is
    also the concept of extending natural life by creating hybrids or mixed societies
    that are built from natural and artificial components. In this paper we motivate
    and present the research program of the project flora robotica. Our objective
    is to develop and to investigate closely linked symbiotic relationships between
    robots and natural plants and to explore the potentials of a plant-robot society
    able to produce architectural artifacts and living spaces. These robot-plant bio-hybrids
    create synergies that allow for new functions of plants and robots. They also
    create novel design opportunities for an architecture that fuses the design and
    construction phase. The bio-hybrid is an example of mixed societies between 'hard'
    artificial and 'wet' natural life, which enables an interaction between natural
    and artificial ecologies. They form an embodied, self-organizing, and distributed
    cognitive system which is supposed to grow and develop over long periods of time
    resulting in the creation of meaningful architectural structures. A key idea is
    to assign equal roles to robots and plants in order to create a highly integrated,
    symbiotic system. Besides the gain of knowledge, this project has the objective
    to create a bio-hybrid system with a defined function and application -- growing
    architectural artifacts.
author:
- first_name: Heiko
  full_name: Hamann, Heiko
  last_name: Hamann
- first_name: Mostafa
  full_name: Wahby, Mostafa
  last_name: Wahby
- first_name: Thomas
  full_name: Schmickl, Thomas
  last_name: Schmickl
- first_name: Payam
  full_name: Zahadat, Payam
  last_name: Zahadat
- first_name: Daniel
  full_name: Hofstadler, Daniel
  last_name: Hofstadler
- first_name: Kasper
  full_name: Stoy, Kasper
  last_name: Stoy
- first_name: Sebastian
  full_name: Risi, Sebastian
  last_name: Risi
- first_name: Andres
  full_name: Faina, Andres
  last_name: Faina
- first_name: Frank
  full_name: Veenstra, Frank
  last_name: Veenstra
- first_name: Serge
  full_name: Kernbach, Serge
  last_name: Kernbach
- first_name: Igor
  full_name: Kuksin, Igor
  last_name: Kuksin
- first_name: Olga
  full_name: Kernbach, Olga
  last_name: Kernbach
- first_name: Phil
  full_name: Ayres, Phil
  last_name: Ayres
- first_name: Przemyslaw
  full_name: Wojtaszek, Przemyslaw
  last_name: Wojtaszek
citation:
  ama: 'Hamann H, Wahby M, Schmickl T, et al. Flora Robotica - Mixed Societies of
    Symbiotic Robot-Plant Bio-Hybrids. In: <i>Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE Symposium
    on Artificial Life (IEEE ALIFE’15)</i>. ; 2015. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/ssci.2015.158">10.1109/ssci.2015.158</a>'
  apa: Hamann, H., Wahby, M., Schmickl, T., Zahadat, P., Hofstadler, D., Stoy, K.,
    … Wojtaszek, P. (2015). Flora Robotica - Mixed Societies of Symbiotic Robot-Plant
    Bio-Hybrids. In <i>Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life (IEEE
    ALIFE’15)</i>. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/ssci.2015.158">https://doi.org/10.1109/ssci.2015.158</a>
  bibtex: '@inproceedings{Hamann_Wahby_Schmickl_Zahadat_Hofstadler_Stoy_Risi_Faina_Veenstra_Kernbach_et
    al._2015, title={Flora Robotica - Mixed Societies of Symbiotic Robot-Plant Bio-Hybrids},
    DOI={<a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/ssci.2015.158">10.1109/ssci.2015.158</a>},
    booktitle={Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life (IEEE ALIFE’15)},
    author={Hamann, Heiko and Wahby, Mostafa and Schmickl, Thomas and Zahadat, Payam
    and Hofstadler, Daniel and Stoy, Kasper and Risi, Sebastian and Faina, Andres
    and Veenstra, Frank and Kernbach, Serge and et al.}, year={2015} }'
  chicago: Hamann, Heiko, Mostafa Wahby, Thomas Schmickl, Payam Zahadat, Daniel Hofstadler,
    Kasper Stoy, Sebastian Risi, et al. “Flora Robotica - Mixed Societies of Symbiotic
    Robot-Plant Bio-Hybrids.” In <i>Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE Symposium on Artificial
    Life (IEEE ALIFE’15)</i>, 2015. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/ssci.2015.158">https://doi.org/10.1109/ssci.2015.158</a>.
  ieee: H. Hamann <i>et al.</i>, “Flora Robotica - Mixed Societies of Symbiotic Robot-Plant
    Bio-Hybrids,” in <i>Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life
    (IEEE ALIFE’15)</i>, 2015.
  mla: Hamann, Heiko, et al. “Flora Robotica - Mixed Societies of Symbiotic Robot-Plant
    Bio-Hybrids.” <i>Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life (IEEE
    ALIFE’15)</i>, 2015, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/ssci.2015.158">10.1109/ssci.2015.158</a>.
  short: 'H. Hamann, M. Wahby, T. Schmickl, P. Zahadat, D. Hofstadler, K. Stoy, S.
    Risi, A. Faina, F. Veenstra, S. Kernbach, I. Kuksin, O. Kernbach, P. Ayres, P.
    Wojtaszek, in: Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life (IEEE
    ALIFE’15), 2015.'
date_created: 2020-10-08T12:44:10Z
date_updated: 2022-01-06T06:54:17Z
department:
- _id: '63'
- _id: '238'
doi: 10.1109/ssci.2015.158
language:
- iso: eng
publication: Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life (IEEE ALIFE'15)
publication_identifier:
  isbn:
  - '9781479975600'
publication_status: published
status: public
title: Flora Robotica - Mixed Societies of Symbiotic Robot-Plant Bio-Hybrids
type: conference
user_id: '15415'
year: '2015'
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