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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A drone from Swiss researchers allows for the easier gathering of samples from tree limbs, as reported by TechCrunch. This picture taken on April 26, 2022 shows ropes used to support branches of 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 ...

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 ...

This week there’s a tree farm at Texas Children’s Hospital where kids pick out Christmas trees for their hospital room. For kids in the hospital this time of year, they’re not just looking forward to ...

Check out this scary video of a Terminator-esque "harvester" machine that cuts a tree down, shaves its branches and bark off, and then spits it out in perfect, standard log lengths. (Thanks, Gregory!) ...