Two college kids from Canada have built a tree-planting robot that they hope will one day be used to reforest the province of British Columbia, which has in recent decades been ravaged by pine beetles ...

Foraging pangolins already dig in the dirt, so why not get them planting trees while they're at it? Well, training them would be pretty hard, which is why a California high school student named ...

The Tin Woodman first appeared in Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz 120 years ago. Now real robot foresters are making their debut, planting trees rather than cutting them down. The robotic ...

Engineering duo Marta Bernardino and Sebastião Mendonça are two 19-year-old college students who were inspired to create a solution after wildfires led to repeated deforestation near their homes in ...

The animal kingdom contains many examples of efficient forms of locomotion, so it's no wonder that we've been seeing a lot of animal-inspired robots – recent examples have included a robotic cheetah, ...

Tilhill Forestry has trialled the PlantMax automated tree planting system as part of its drive to scale up UK woodland creation, using ...

Back in school, I remember learning that plants are “heliotropic,” meaning they grow toward light. I always found this oddly touching, as if those green tendrils stretching out to the sun proved the ...

Precision irrigation robot shows how soil variation changes water needs, reducing waste and boosting orchard efficiency.