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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Trees and forests around the world are under strain from climate change. They also are threatened by logging and development. To address these problems—and to increase the capture of carbon dioxide ...