robotics
Robots are trained to help revive coral reefs
Researchers are experimenting with robots to help speed up the restoration of coral reefs.
Farming feeds billions but climate impacts need fixing
Many of us hold onto romantic images of farming. Most of that is utter nonsense. Fixing agriculture is necessary to address climate change and we have solutions.
AI is weirdly great at recycling
It’s really hard to sort all the junk that gets thrown in recycling bins. Do tech startups have the answer?
The school funding robotics classes by selling its own solar energy
In Tunisia, where education is underfunded, one school is flush with cash after covering itself in solar panels and selling the energy back to the grid.
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A robot finds more trouble under the doomsday glacier
Underneath thousands of feet of Thwaites Glacier’s solid ice, a bot filmed peculiar features, where melting is much faster. It’s an ominous sign for rising sea levels.
This massive robot is designed to harvest EV metals from the ocean. But can it be done sustainably?
Impossible Metals has a more sustainable way to harvest nickel and cobalt, but experts worry it could still disrupt vital ecosystems.
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Velcro, bullet trains and robotic arms: how nature is the mother of invention
Many of the world’s most inspiring solutions have been created by scientists who stole their ideas from the natural world.
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