a living structure fascinates heiko hammond he s not a gardener but robotics expert and he heads a project called the flora robotic are. his team in lubec studies and developed symbiotic relationship between robots and plants here red and blue lights are set up to steer plants. the robotic sensing and control elements helped produce living architectural structures. we re building an autonomous system distributed robotic system that can independently change the direction plants grow and. no one had tried this before so we had to do a lot of the basics. to find out what kinds of sensors really work and how bright the area delight s need to be and. the assailant is sign we have to do a lot of technical engineering well to get it up and running. and so.