The Telegarden (1995-ongoing, networked robot installation at Ars Electronica Museum, Austria, [link] and [link]). Co-directors: Ken Goldberg [link] and Joseph Santarromana. Project team: George Bekey, Steven Gentner, Rosemary Morris Carl Sutter, Jeff Wiegley, Erich Berger. (Photo by Robert Wedemeyer). Images courtesy of Ken Goldberg

The Telegarden consists of a portable garden at the Ars Electronica Centre at Linz containing an industrial robotic arm that is controlled by the web and allows remote participants to plant seeds and water the plants created in the garden.

'What is the feeling of owning a flower or a vegetable in a garden that one has never visited, and will never visit, yet taking care of it telerobotically and watching it grow?' (Kusahara in Goldberg, 2000: 205)

For further readings see the above sites, Goldberg's 'The Robot in the Garden' [link], and at [link]. See also [link]

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