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Exhibitions

• The inspection experiment was featured 10 days long running 20 robots for 10 hours a day at an exhibition "Consciences a l'oeuvre" taking place in a local museum in Lausanne during the swiss wide festival Science et Cite 2005 , organised every four years.

Print

• Robogardner by MIT News Staff, MIT Technology Review, May/June, 2009.
• Hackers Weigh In: 8 Big Things to Do with a Mini Server by Christoper Mims, Scientific American, April 28, 2009.
• MIT branches out with more than a garden-variety robot, by Renee Nadau, The Boston Herald, April 11, 2009.
• I, robot - and gardener: MIT droid tend plants, by Melissa Trujillo, Associated Press, April 10, 2009. Syndicated more than 160 times and appeared in USA Today, Forbes, and Washington Post as well as in Austria (Der Gärtner mit dem Greifarm), China ([图片]麻省理工学院研制的园丁机器人), Germany (Der grüne Daumen wird elektronisch), The Netherlands (Robot als tuinman) and Mexico (Atiende a las plantas robot jardinero) among others.
• Garden variety, MIT TechTalk, March 18, 2009.
• In an Age of Robots, One to Clean the House? Still but a Dream, by Natalie Angier. New York Times, November 24, 2008.
• "Swarm Theory", by Peter Miller. National Geographic, July 2007, Washington, DC, USA.
• New SWIS Army - Developing collective intelligence, by Bill Weaver. Scientific Computing, Vol. 23, Number 8, page 14, July 2006, Advantage Business Media, Rockaway, NJ, USA.
• L'intelligence collective des robots, Sciensationnel, No. 5. EPFL outreaching magazine for young scientists.

Radio

• BBC Radio 5 Live, Interview, April 14, 2009.

Film and Television

• Robot Gardener Plants, Tends and Harvests, by Eric Bland, Discovery Channel News, April 8, 2009.
• R U Robot Ready?, Mevio Tech News, March 11, 2009.
• Super-Cockroach, by Pascal Cuissot and Benjamin Turquet, 52min. International broadcast in various broad-public scientific programmings.
• Les robots cherchent la petite bête", by Emmanuelle Jacquet, 2006. 5min, Tele Suisse Romande/ Nuovo. Public broadcast in Switzerland and Belgium (TV5).
• "Alice au pays des cafards / Wenn Kakerlaken Freunde werden", by Jean-Pierre Gibrat, 2006. 52min, Trans Europe Film, ARTE France/Germany, CNRS Images/Media.

Online

• VIDEO: Tiny robot swarms pioneer engine maintenance by Aimee Turner, Flight Global, May 8, 2009.
• MIT and the Constant Robotic Gardeners by Aaron Saenz, Singularity Hub, April 14, 2009.
• Robot làm vườn by Trùng Quang, Thanh Nien Online, April 12, 2009.
• В Массачусетском технологическом институте разрабатывают полностью автономную роботизированную теплицу March 23, ITC, Ukrainia.
• Roboter-Gärtner überwachen Pflanzen vollautomatisch, Die Presse.com, March 23, 2009.
• Robot gardeners by David Pescovitz, March 31, 2009, boingboing.net.
• Green-thumbed robots: the future of sustainable precision agriculture?, March 26, 2009, gizmag.com.
• Robots Help Garden Thrive, Converge Magazine, March 23, 2009.
• MIT Students Develop Robotic Gardeners by Georgiana Boblicu, Softpedia.com, March 23, 2009.
• MIT dreams of fully autonomous greenhouse, will definitly make it happen, by Darren Murph, engadget.com, March 22, 2009.
• Robots Care for Plants (By Peeing on Them) by Wilson Rothman, Gizmodo.com, March 20, 2009.
• Precision agriculture uses robot gardeners for sustainable farming, by Bryan Betts, The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), March 19, 2009.
• Robotic Gardeners Tend To Tomato Plants, Ubergizmo.com, March 11, 2009.
• Robotic gardening: MIT course creates robot-tending tomatoes, gadgetted.com, March 19, 2009.
• MIT researchers grow tomato gardening robots, Network World, March 19, 2009.
• Here's what's awesome: robot gardeners, by Brady Carlson, New Hampshire Public Radio, March 15, 2009.
• MIT開發的機器人園丁來也 by Peivan and Matt Hickey, taiwan.cnet.com, March 13, 2009.
• MIT creates robots that serve as gardeners by Doug Osborne, www.geek.com, March 12, 2009.
• Attack of the killer robo-gardeners, by Matt Hickey, CNET news, March 12, 2009.
• Robot gardeners to do more gentle picking and gardening, TechFever Network, March 12, 2009.
• MIT introduces networked plants tended by robot gardeners by S. Kramer, DVICE.com, March 11, 2009.
• Robotic gardeners tend tomato plants by Conner Flynn, Slippery Brick, March 11, 2009.
• MIT gardening robot leaves nothing to do for farmers, Gadget Reviews, March 11, 2009.
• Is our Future Filled with Robotic Farmers Tending to Sensor-Equipped Vegetables?, by Ariel Schwartz, Fast Company, March 11, 2009.
• Robot tend the tomatoes by Judy Lowe, The Christian Science Monitor, March 11, 2009.
• Robotic gardening: MIT course creates robot-tending tomatoes , March 10, 2009, physorg.com.
• New Software Tracks Swarms of Insects or Robots by Bill Christensen, September 30, 2006, Livescience.com.