Two 19-year-old college students from Portugal have created Trovador — a six-legged, AI-enabled robot that can navigate rugged terrain and replant trees in wildfire-scorched hills. It plants up to 200 saplings per hour, achieves 85–90 % survival in trials, and could revive forests where humans and machines can’t reach.
(c) Karsten Winegeart
(c) Karsten Winegeart

Young inventors build robot that plants trees on steep burned slopes

SMITHSONIAN MAG

Two 19-year-old college students from Portugal have created Trovador — a six-legged, AI-enabled robot that can navigate rugged terrain and replant trees in wildfire-scorched hills. It plants up to 200 saplings per hour, achieves 85–90 % survival in trials, and could revive forests where humans and machines can’t reach.

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