This repository contains our third-year university autonomous robot project.
We write weekly reports detailing our progress on the projects.
(you can find them here)
For more than a decade, climate change has been a major issue which has greatly disrupted the world we live in. Aware of the risks nature is facing, our team decided to help preserve the wildlife at our own scale. For our third-year project, we chose to create the E-Gaïa robot which could plant in arid zones after a fire or in desertic areas.
Despite being an unconventional approach, an autonomous robot could assist in finding adequate locations, planting suitable seeds, and taking care of irrigation. We hope that this self-sufficient robot could help regenerating vegetation and by doing so, safeguarding the ecosystem.
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You can check out the initial research report and the short article.
By Jaime Alba and Brice Mabille