Trovador is the name of Bernardino and Mendonça’s robot, a six-legged creation enabled with artificial intelligence to ...
A pilot project in Peru is using a robot to plant seeds to help reforestation of the Amazon, where pristine rainforest and biodiversity is being blighted by mining and logging, much of it illegal.
It was the terrain itself that was the enemy.” That candid assessment from one Portuguese reforestation leader sparked one of ...
Marta Bernardino and Sebastião Mendonça invented Trovador, a six-legged, A.I.-powered robot that can plant trees in ...
Robot trees might sound dystopian but Cork City Council has managed to get their hands on some, all in the name of tackling air pollution. Paying €350,000 for the year (including maintenance), the ...
The so-called 'robot trees' installed in Cork City centre nearly four years ago to help clean pollutants from the air have been removed. The five devices, which were erected in August 2021 as part of ...
The installation of controversial ‘robot trees’ in Cork has sparked a lively debate. Five high-tech CityTrees, costing €350,000 for the year including maintenance, are being installed at St Patrick’s ...