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Harpreet Sareen

Former Research Affiliate
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From Spinach-Sent Emails to 'WALL-E': Where Plants and Technology Intersect

This collaboration explores the intersection of plants and tech, from WALL-E to Media Lab alum Harpreet Sareen’s Cyborg Botany projects.
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Biohacked cyborg plants may help prevent environmental disaster

The glowing lily is one of Harpreet Sareen’s botanical “cyborgs”—vegetation he biohacks to serve as environmental watchdogs.
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What Biodesign Means to Me

Alum Harpreet Sareen writes about how humans might form a type of symbiosis with the plant kingdom in the future.
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SEI Exhibition at Ars Electronica 2019: 50 Years After the Moon

Ars Electronica FestivalSeptember 5-9, 2019 at POSTCITY, Linz, Austria 50 years after the Apollo 11 lunar landing, we are seeing …
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Zero Gravity Flight 2019

This mission included participation from several departments at MIT and outside collaborators from across the globe.
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Could plants be the future of interface design?

Core77 reports on the Fluid Interfaces group’s work in cyborg botany.
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Motion-sensing shrubs and robo-Venus flytraps: Inside the world of Cyborg Botany

“A plant absorbing water acts as a natural motor, their photosynthesis as optoelectronics, their growth as a 3D printer, and so on.”
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Cyborg Botany wins the 2019 Golden Mouse Award at CHI

The Golden Mouse is a “Best of Show” award that recognizes the best overall submission to the CHI Video Showcase.
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Media Lab research at CHI 2019

The following Media Lab groups and projects are represented at CHI 2019
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Six suborbital research payloads from MIT fly to space and back

Space Exploration Initiative research aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard experiment capsule crossed the Karman line for three minutes
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Six suborbital research payloads fly on Blue Origin New Shepard

The projects on board the Media Lab's first suborbital rocket flight
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Fresh off the (MIT Media) lab

MIT Media Lab fosters innovation with its motto of 'imagine and realise.'
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MIT "cyborg botany" researcher builds plant-robot hybrid called Elowan

Sareen is a research affiliate within the Fluid Interfaces group, and worked with lab founder Pattie Maes to develop the project.
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Elowan in the news

A selection of recent press coverage on Elowan, a plant-robot hybrid designed by Harpreet Sareen and Pattie Maes.
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The Leafy Green Cyborgs Are Coming

While plants at first glance look like static things, they are in fact very busy transmitting bio-electrochemical signals.
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Cyborg houseplant can drive itself toward the light it craves

Introducing Elowan, a robot-plant hybrid designed by Harpreet Sareen and Pattie Maes, both from MIT Media Lab.
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This plant is a cyborg (and it might be the future of interfaces)

A Parsons and MIT researcher hooked up electrodes to a plant’s leaves to turn it into a robotic sensor.
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Media Lab Asia Names Bimal Sareen As CEO and Managing Director