After hearing a radio program describe the labor-intensive work of forest pathologists — basically, tree doctors — Maksim Mikhailov had an idea: what if a robot helped collect their data? Mikhailov is ...

Swiss researchers are working on an environmental monitoring robot named Avocado that's been inspired by abseiling spiders. The fruit-shaped bot uses a winch and rotors to lower itself through the ...

Artificial Christmas trees are getting a high-tech upgrade this season … and a lot of social media attention. You may have seen the “robot Christmas tree,” an artificial tree that embraces its ...

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 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 ...

Robots are commonplace in row crops, but the fresh market tree fruit industry still relies on large, seasonal workforces. “Every apple you see at the grocery store was picked by a human hand,” said ...

Oregon State University researchers have created an artificial environment that simulates apple trees to collect data on its robot hand, regardless of growing season. This fake apple is attached via a ...