Reasons to be Cheerful reports on autonomous plastic-eating robots in cities worldwide led by The Ocean Cleanup which aims to ...

Robots that collect waste from rivers and ocean garbage zones could help remove millions of pounds of trash—but an autonomous cleanup fleet would need strict limits, oversight and a way to be ...

Researchers have developed an autonomous system for seeking out and mapping hotspots of biodiversity on coral reefs with unprecedented precision, offering a powerful new tool for studying and ...