New Concept Could Spark Ideas for Tree-Planting Bots

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Trees play clear and crucial roles in many ecosystems—whether they’re providing shade on a sunny day, serving as a home for a family of owls, or cycling carbon dioxide out of the air. But forests are not only diminishing through exploitative logging practices as well as the process of desertification which turns grassland and shrubland arid. Restoring biodiversity to these areas through