Continental is developing a Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree - seeding robot together with the nature restoration company Land Life to mitigate the effects of disforestation . The robot can sow at a rate of one tree diagram seed per moment , with the remote - controlled fomite placing up to 60 pits in the solid ground per hour .
Continental ’s in - house engineering and development services supplier Continental Engineering Services ( CES ) and Land Life are collaborating to wreak this robot to the grocery for the first time . Land Life will contribute its in - profoundness expertise in nature restoration labor . CES , on the other hand , is develop the automatic drilling and seeding faculty for sowing the germ balls . A automaton fomite from the German manufacturer Stella Engineering , which is already uncommitted in the market , serves as the automate driving unit that carries the golem .
Martin Poettcher , Head of Business Center GreenTech at CES said : " We are proud of to better half with Land Life to jointly develop a sustainable root for the conservation and trade protection of vital ecosystem . "
agree to a monitoring report by the World Resources Institute ( WRI ) , global timber loss increased by 24 per centum in 2023 : from 22.8 million hectares in 2022 to 28.3 million hectare in 2023 . The passing of tropic rainforests is particularly serious . In entire , around 37,000 square klick ( 3.7 million hectare ) disappeared in 2023 – a forest orbit much larger than Belgium . According to the WRI , the world has lost three to four million hectares of tropic wood per year over the retiring two decade . Areas of ripe rainforest are particularly crucial for biodiversity , carbon entrepot , and the regulation of regional and local climate impacts .
Because of the serious event mood modification has , with forest flack and also the on-going clearing of forests , the restitution of ecosystems has never been more urgent . However , formal re-afforestation methods are often impractical , especially in inaccessible terrain . More forward-looking solutions are need . This is where the seeding golem offer Modern possibilities for restoring critical tree diagram populations – thus protecting mood and biodiversity .
Harrie Lövenstein , Head of R&D at Land Life explain that : " Our collaborationism with CES will strengthen biodiversity while expand born ecosystem . This synergism of CES ' self-propelling know - how with Land Life ’s re-afforestation ground is advancing the approach to independent , in high spirits - quality nature refurbishment worldwide . "
The sowing golem relies on a fully automatic lineal sowing method acting . The drilling and sowing module develop by CES is at the heart and soul of the automated sowing simple machine . And this is how it works : first , footing - cover weed and Gunter Wilhelm Grass are removed . The automaton then drills a hole at the optimal depth and width for the soil and tree . A seeded player formal is dropped into the drilled kettle of fish using flat air , and the filth that was initially drilled out is then emptied back over the seed . The whole cognitive process take less than a minute .
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