Cybertronica UG 1 article published in JoVE Engineering Robotic Sensing and Stimuli Provision for Guided Plant Growth Mostafa Wahby1, Mary Katherine Heinrich1,5, Daniel Nicolas Hofstadler2, Julian Petzold1, Igor Kuksin3, Payam Zahadat2,4, Thomas Schmickl2, Phil Ayres5, Heiko Hamann1 1Institute of Computer Engineering, University of Lübeck, 2Institute of Biology, Artificial Life Lab, University of Graz, 3Cybertronica UG, 4Department of Computer Science, IT University of Copenhagen, 5Centre for IT and Architecture, Royal Danish Academy Distributed robot nodes provide sequences of blue light stimuli to steer the growth trajectories of climbing plants. By activating natural phototropism, the robots guide the plants through binary left-right decisions, growing them into predefined patterns that by contrast are not possible when the robots are dormant.