This tiny device could reforest the entire planet

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:
danli-luo.com/
Research paper:
www.nature.com...
You can see more about the project here:
www.morphingma...
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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