Two college kids from Canada have built a tree-planting robot that they hope will one day be used to reforest the province of British Columbia, which has in recent decades been ravaged by pine ...

Inventors have high hopes for robotic tree planter MAPLE RIDGE — Nick Birch and Tyler Rhodes hope they are unleashing a bit of forestry’s future in a recently cleared patch of forest in the ...

There's more pressure than ever to grow more trees as high volume wildfires rage across the West. The North Idaho nursery has 130 acres of seed beds that look fuzzy thanks to millions of baby ...

Orchard Robotics, an agtech startup using artificial intelligence to deliver precise data on farm operations, has raised $22 ...

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 ...

Planting trees is back-breaking, repetitive work — but if two University of Victoria students have their way, robots will assist tree planters in the future. Third-year electrical engineering ...

The popular Grow & Stow uses a remote control to “grow” the tree from storage height up to 9 feet tall. Most robot trees have customizable LED lights and some feature branch-fluffing tech or ...

Mock-ups of the robotic foresters The Tin Woodman first appeared in Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz 120 years ago. Now real robot foresters are making their debut, planting trees rather ...