About the Authors

Naveen Shamsudhin

Affiliation Multi-Scale Robotics Lab, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Nino Laeubli

Affiliation Multi-Scale Robotics Lab, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Huseyin Baris Atakan

Affiliation Multi-Scale Robotics Lab, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Hannes Vogler

Affiliations Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center, Zurich, Switzerland

Chengzhi Hu

grossnik@botinst.uzh.ch (UG); huc@ethz.ch (CH); bnelson@ethz.ch (BJN)

Affiliation Multi-Scale Robotics Lab, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Walter Haeberle

Affiliation IBM Research - Zurich, Switzerland

Abu Sebastian

Affiliation IBM Research - Zurich, Switzerland

Ueli Grossniklaus

grossnik@botinst.uzh.ch (UG); huc@ethz.ch (CH); bnelson@ethz.ch (BJN)

Affiliations Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center, Zurich, Switzerland

Bradley J. Nelson

grossnik@botinst.uzh.ch (UG); huc@ethz.ch (CH); bnelson@ethz.ch (BJN)

Affiliation Multi-Scale Robotics Lab, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors acknowledge the financial support through the Research and Technology Development project MecanX, funded by SystemsX.ch, the Swiss Initiative in Systems Biology (www.systemsx.ch). IBM Research - Zurich provided support in the form of salaries for authors A.S. and W.H. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: NS UG BJN. Formal analysis: NS HBA. Funding acquisition: UG BJN. Investigation: NS NL HBA. Methodology: NS NL HBA. Project administration: UG BJN. Resources: HV WH. Supervision: CH AS UG BJN. Visualization: NS. Writing – original draft: NS HV. Writing – review & editing: NS HV CH AS UG BJN.