How To Talk To Plants Using Machine Learning And Gesture Recognition

Botanicus Interacticus is a new interactive plant technology which does not require any new instrumentation in plants. A simple electrode placed inside the soil is able to grasp a ton of frequencies produced by the plant, converting it into a multi-touch gesture sensitive controller. Touché is a project developed at Disney Research which makes use of frequencies captured by sensing various events witnessed by the plant and simultaneously recognises complex human physical interactions with it. In simple words, it has the capability to express what kind of touch event has occurred -- caressing, pinching, holding, tickling, etc. Traditional capacitive sensors work by generating an electrical signal at a single frequency. This frequency is applied onto a conductive surface, such as a metal. The value of the capacitance changes if the hand is close enough to the surface of the plant or if it is in contact.