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Serena Armiento is a pioneering researcher at the intersection of soft robotics, biohybrid systems, and environmental sensing. Her work focuses on developing innovative, non-invasive technologies that interface with living organisms—particularly plants—to harvest energy and monitor ecological interactions. Armiento’s most notable contribution is the invention of a device that simultaneously harvests wind and raindrop energy from the surface of plant leaves, a breakthrough that merges biomechanics with sustainable energy generation (18 citations). She has also created a plant-hybrid system for wind monitoring that connects to social media, demonstrating how soft robotics can enable real-time environmental data collection without harming living tissues (4 citations). Additionally, Armiento explored triboelectric charging during insect walking on leaves, proposing a novel tool for sensing plant-insect interactions (4 citations), and investigated the iridescent structures of *Posidonia oceanica* seagrass for underwater light modulation (2 citations). Her work exemplifies how soft, bioinspired technologies can transform our understanding of and interaction with natural ecosystems, offering scalable solutions for green energy and ecological monitoring.