When we talk about solutions to the pressing concerns of deforestation, mass extinction, and climate change, we tend to think big. Designers try to engineer electric airliners. Drought-ridden ...

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Have you ever seen a wet sloth? They’re pretty scary. If that’s not bad enough, how do you feel about a robotic one? Named the X-4 “Sloth”, this is one of [222Doc’s] hardest projects to date — a ...

Over 7 billion people live on Earth, which means feeding our growing population will require us to produce food more efficiently than we are now. Could Robots could help us ramp up food production?