During the early 2010s, the emergence of Zoobotics and robots inspired by animals coincided with the introduction of another type of robotics. This concept was initially proposed by Barbara Mazzolai, a former biologist from Italy who envisioned merging the growth processes of plants with robotics to create roboplants.
Mazzolai proposed looking beyond animals and came up with roboplants, which may appear uninteresting due to their limited mobility, but they present various possibilities, especially in establishing a human colony on new planets such as Mars where infrastructure is crucial and roboplants can contribute significantly.
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