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 ...

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 ...

High above the Canopy Walk, inside the fertile hardwood forests teeming with tulip poplars and Southern silverbells, is a sloth just hanging around. Take a stroll down the Storza Woods in Atlanta ...

Photos: High school robotics teams create ornaments for Festival of Trees North Scott senior Anthony Fecht, 17, explains the 3D printing process at the Arconic Learning Center, Riverdale. Fecht ...