Healing wastelands using non-motored bionic tumbleweed ball
To heal the wastelands, designer Yizhuo Guo creates a bionic Tumbleweed plant-inspired ‘nomad’ ball that rolls around to plant seeds. A passive, unpowered biomimetic structure, the device named Wasteland Nomad moves through a damaged landscape without a motor, a power source, or a human operator, and deposits the materials the soil needs to begin recovering. The design draws from the tumbleweed, which is a plant that, once it dries out and detaches from its root, rolls across open ground driven by wind. As it rolls, it disperses seeds using aerodynamics to spread its reproductive material across a wide area. Yizhuo Guo took that behavior and embedded it into her project.
The Wasteland Nomad is built from…