"Meet Trovador, a tree-planting robot that saves and restores burned land from deforestation by placing seedlings in the ground. A project by students Marta Bernardino and Sebastião Mendonça, the autonomous device plants trees on steep terrain that has been burned off. The young engineers propose two prototypes. The first one, which Marta Bernardino introduced in 2023, is a spider-like robot with six legs, each serving a different purpose."
"The front legs of the tree-planting robot that combats deforestation have sharp tips that grip the ground during movement, and then the middle legs have grippers, shaped like a quadrangular pyramid, on the tibia section. A stepper motor rotates to open and close the gripper, while the middle legs both walk and plant trees. The body has four layers, with the top one holding trees."
Trovador is an autonomous tree-planting system designed to save and restore burned and deforested land by placing seedlings in the ground on steep terrain. The initial prototype is a six-legged, spider-like robot with specialized legs for gripping, carrying, planting, and compacting soil, and it stores up to six seedlings in an egg-carton style container that a gripper accesses. A full-scale dog-shaped version is planned with drilling capabilities to make planting holes, adaptive sensors that measure soil conditions in real time, terrain-climbing legs, and an estimated planting rate of about 200 trees per hour.
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