E-Seeds Lab Tour – 2026 Climate Week at Penn
October 5 at 1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
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Date:
October 5, 2026
Time:
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Event Category:
Research and Innovation
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Event Website:
https://climateweek.provost.upenn.edu/event/e-seeds-lab-tour
Organizer
Shu Yang Group
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Discover how we turn natural inspiration into a new kind of seeding robot. In this tour, you will see how wood-based E-seeds are fabricated, shaped and assembled into responsive structures inspired by self-burying Erodium seeds in nature. We will then show how they are tested inside an environmental chamber, where changes in moisture trigger the material to move and interact with soil. You will follow the full process, from making the robotic seed and deploying it into soil to seeing how it helps create conditions for seed germination and plant growth. The tour highlights how materials science, robotics and biology can come together to create simple, sustainable systems inspired by nature.
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