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 ...

Gone are the days where you have to manually move your plant on and off the windowsill by hand. Now, there’s a robot that will do it for you! The HEXA Plant is a six-legged machine designed to carry a ...

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 ...

Dear fellow and aspiring houseplant people, there's a new must have planter and it's so much more than a trendy terra cotta pot. A robot planter can keep your houseplants alive, because we live in the ...

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