Engineering duo Marta Bernardino and Sebastião Mendonça are two 19-year-old college students who were inspired to create a solution after wildfires led to repeated deforestation near their homes in ...

When a knot lets go, it doesn't just fall apart. It snaps. That simple observation led Penn Engineers to rethink what a knot ...

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 that can grow around trees or rocks like a vine could be used to make buildings or measure pollution in hard-to-reach natural environments. Vine-like robots aren’t new, but they are often ...

Precision irrigation robot shows how soil variation changes water needs, reducing waste and boosting orchard efficiency.