This year’s winner of the Natural Robotics Contest is the Plantolin, a pangolin-inspired robot designed to plant trees.
From Superinnovators 08/10/24
Dorothy, a high school student from California, designed it, and the University of Surrey, which hosts the contest, built it.
Covered in plywood scales, it digs using its claws, depositing a yew “seed bomb” into the hole.
More info
https://www.surrey.ac.uk/news/meet-plantolin-tree-planting-robot-pangolin-built-university-surrey
https://www.naturalroboticscontest.com
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