Trovador is the name of Bernardino and Mendonça’s robot, a six-legged creation enabled with artificial intelligence to ...

Marta Bernardino and Sebastião Mendonça invented Trovador, a six-legged, A.I.-powered robot that can plant trees in ...

The developers are now refining their minimum viable product after summer field tests in Lisbon. Their goal is to deploy ...

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 ...

Plant robotics shows how living movement and sensing can power biodegradable machines that work with natural environments, ...

A robot pangolin designed to plant trees is the winner of this year's Natural Robotics Contest. As the winning entry, the pangolin – dubbed "Plantolin" – has been brought to life by engineers at the ...

“It should be more like pancake batter,” says Nastasia Winey, as she prepares a seed mix solution for Grasshopper - a seagrass-planting robot. Winey is a robotics engineer with ReefGen, a company that ...

A robot the size and shape of a square kitchen table wheels over a row of seedlings. It scans the ground with camera "eyes," then stops. A small probe lowers from the middle of the robot, homes in on ...

A team of engineers and plant pathologists are developing a spider-shaped robot as the latest weapon in the war against a devastating crop disease. Curcurbits are a large family of plants that include ...