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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Robotics Volume 2011, Article ID 124314, 7 pages doi:10.1155/2011/124314 Research Article Development of Bio-Machine Based on the Plant Response to External Stimuli K. Aditya,1, 2 Ganesha Udupa,1 and Yongkwun Lee2 1 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri Campus, Kollam 690525, India 2 Centre for Bionics, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul 136-791, Republic of Korea Correspondence should be addressed to Yongkwun Lee, yklee@kist.re.kr Received 9 August 2011; Revised 31 October 2011; Accepted 11 November 2011 Academic Editor: Ivo Bukovsky Copyright © 2011 K. Aditya et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. In the area of biorobotics, intense research work is being done based on plant intelligence. Any living cell continuously receives information from the environment. In this paper, research is conducted on the plant named descoingsii x haworthioides (Pepe) obtaining the action potential signals and its responses to stimulations of different light modes. The plant electrical signal is the reaction of plant’s stimulation owing to various environmental conditions. Action potentials are responsible for signaling between plant cells and communication from the plants can be achieved through modulation of various parameters of the electrical signal in the plant tissue. The modulated signals are used for providing information to the microcontroller’s algorithm for working of the bio-machine. The changes of frequency of action potentials in plant are studied. Electromyography (EMG) electrodes and needle- type condu