hi vikng.. Great news. We in Croatia have drones that also plant all types of trees. First, they can access places where it would be difficult for people to plant and trees have been destroyed. Second, they throw large amounts of so-called seed bombs containing the seeds of native trees specific to that area. In this way, they plant much more in a short time than the human hand could... Technology in the service of nature is great.. ;)
Can really see how emotional this topic is for you. It's indeed heartbreaking how such natural treasures are destroyed. Good to see we might turn the tide
I keep thinking there might be huge solar farms with a small fleet of Optimus that all head out to clean and maybe even repair the panels daily. They charge at night from a battery charged from the cells. Someone somewhere can monitor it online but imagine a completely independent solar farm that doesn’t require any human to even visit for months at a time.
I do not think you have ever seen a system that cleans solar panels. It's simple but very effective. Using a fleet of Optimus to do this job may seem cool but actually it would be really inefficient operation wise and cost wise.
You are correct. I’m not picturing Optimus with dusters and a mop or anything but merely imagining a system that might be so utterly self sufficient that humans barely have to pay attention to it perhaps for months or years at a time.
Drones to plant seedlings, great idea. Putting seeds into a pot, a human can outpace a robot several times over. We lived near a forestry research and cultivation centre in Vernon, B.C. Canada. The seed planting was already machine automated 25 years ago. The planting of the seedlings must be done by humans, but is also mechanically assisted due to rocks and overburdened ground. Amazing to see how very efficient the reforestation process can be.
This is great. Deforestation is a problem and things like this helps, but what we're doing to our oceans is the real problem. They provide most of our oxygen. I can't wait to see what they do in that arena.
Great! Bringing back these ecosystems is way more complicated than just planting trees, there's lots of other organisms as well, and not all the plants are well adapted to this, but it's something at least. Another application of these kinds of devices is agriculture.
Thanks Sam for a great video. We are 'rewilding' about an acre and a half of land here in France. I used to cut the field using a diesel tractor (yuk) but 5 years ago we started planting trees and letting nature take its course wrt the grasses and self seeding. Now have about 150 trees of 14 different species..oak, sweet chestnut, walnut, hawthorn and hornbeam self seed but we've added alder, field maple, red oak, rowan, silver birch and even a gingko. Never realised how much pleasure we would get from seeing the field develop over the years as more varieties of wild flowers, butterflies and birds have turned up..In winter we get wild boar coming through at night churning things up a bit, as do moles with deer regular visitors as we see on the wildlife camera. On a large scale though robotics could make a real difference.
Nature is wonderful. It provides beauty, food and shelter for birds, bees, butterflies and all other wildlife. Humans needs to stop poisoning the environment.
The two soccer fields per day comment is misleading, this machine can plant that many seeds, if provided with the soil filled pots, and the planted pots are then soaked and moved onto lath houses for a year to grow out. With some care and regular irrigation, they can then be planted out by hand, by humans. With limited staff, all labor saving devices can help. The fact that robots don't need a salary, medical care or retirement and will work as many hours per day as required, seven days a week is what makes them so useful. But raising forest species for seed, or collecting wild seeds, and replanting them with drones will have the wider impact longterm.
Using drones shooting seeds and even young plants into the ground while using a map to precisely determine where the planting happens is the superior option.
Hello Sam, I live in Brazil for 17 years now. You name me one country where farmers are obliged to keep 20% of there farm with native forrest… Name me one country where 68% of there land is forrest… Name me one country that has farmeble land that is Left as a forrest… Misinformation is used to Steal from Brazil and try to use it as a colonie , nobody can compeet with Brazilian agriculture , Brazil has a costadvantage of 80% against usa /europe . Só they start campaigns against Brazil to protect there agriculture. Of course there are problems , its a big área to protect , and lote of ilegal activities going on , lots of valuable things in This forrest.. if Brazilian forrest Bruns its a scaneando but if forrest in the rest of the world burns its an accident
Yumi is good news! Great little machine. And I think it will play an important role for reforestation. But, really there is a huge but! While I think that Yumi is usefull in high wage western countries, because no one can pay wages in western countries for those kind of work, but in those countries it would be socially better to let the people there this work and to pay them good wages. They should build up their own country and experience a double positive effect. Getting wages with which their families can have a good life and something with which they can identify with their work and country / land. Yes we need Yumi, but every penny that was saved in western countries with Yumi should be the wage for the people in Brazil or elsewhere on this planet.
Planting seeds and trees is something humans, even human children can do. This year, i planted about a dozen new fruit trees. It is very cheap to hire tree planting humans, I tree planted all summer in BC and did over 2000 cedars, one summer during my university
How about using excess solar and wind power when it soon becomes available in Australia to desalinate sea water for forest building. If there is a way to solidify the minerals from the process into bricks, they can be used for structural purposes. Then it won’t harmfully elevate the salinity of the sea water in the area of the process. I wouldn’t want to live in a high rise building during a flood with salt brick construction,but it seems like a good place to incarcerate bad roofing contractors.
Oh, Sam!! Yumi needs those big sxaey robots to protect them from big scary mercenaries,trying to steal the land from those who WANT to deforest the jungle. Sad, but true...
VOCÊS ESTAO HA 2 ANOS CHUPANDO PENIS RUSSOS LA NA UCRANIA, PRIMEIRO PARE DE FAZER ISSO E DEPOIS TENHA MORAL DE FALAR FAZER GUERRA CONTRA O BRASIL, EU ACABEI DE ENTREGAR TEU IP PARA AS FORCAS ARMADAS DO BRASIL AGORA E VOCÊ ESTÁ SENDO RASTREADO PELO GOVERNO DO BRASIL AGORA.
Like almost every invention of man, it can be used for good and/or evil. How long before the vast majority of jobs are taken over by AI and robots? I spent years in the automation industry. Many of the jobs replaced were boring and repetitive. But they were jobs. Not everyone is able to train in mechatronics. The benefits of automation have flowed to the mega-rich, not to the average man.
Australia has the oldest rainforest on earth, but isn't doing a good job of preserving it either. Tasmania has logged the tallest trees in the world (Mountain Ash Eucalyptus). Most countries are bad at preserving natural forest. Canada logs its western rainforest for toilet rolls and wood chips!
Can we be objective and admit that Tesla has made the least progress of all the major AI efforts in the past five years? Yes, FSD has improved quite a bit recently, but when we tally progress from other machine-learning initiatives by comparison, they are behind, because full autonomy has a long ways to go yet. Optimus will have to work with, and understand human behavior and FSD is not built upon that (yet), so intelligent robots represent a much more ambitious leap than FSD by far.
Really? Who put the bag into the crate and who put the dirt into the bag? So buy a $100,000 robot to push a seed into bagged dirt. You could hire a local for 5 to 10 years for the same $100,000 . So you just put a very poor person out of work. great job. And you missed something. WHERE is the APP.
Sam, you should be recognized for your humanitarian and environmental efforts. One of the reasons your following is growing so fast is your sincerity. Good on you, mate. ❤
Um, sorry but that looks ridiculous. Humans can plant trees in the wild faster, and they can plant them in nurseries faster. Robots are really, really expensive, and you need an expert to maintain them. We were all told in elementary school that the Amazon was being swiftly depleted, yet all these years later, it's still there. Trees can always be replanted by people and if they're volunteers they don't need to be paid. The soil is fertile there and it rains a lot. It's super easy to re-green the cut areas, and if you want old-growth forest, just buy the land and conserve it. That's called conservation. We're still a long ways off from robots doing all our work for us.
I'm still in the prototyping phase in the lab. You'd be surprised how many times we feel the need to repeat the experiments. Cant quite plant the seed in the right hole it seems.
The problem in the amazon isn't that no one is planting trees. The problem is that nutrient in the forest is totally bound up in the existing canopy. The forest is clear cut, BURNED, and planted to feed cows. The burning removes significant amounts of the nutrients, and cows remove the rest. This kills the land, so another piece needs the same treatment. Until the soil is fertile again, planting trees isn't much help. And usually trees get planted in monocultures instead of the diversity that a forest, particularly a rain forest requires. Plus, there are plenty of people there who could use the money that is going into the robot, for doing that work. Money to a rich country for making robots does no good, while paying locals does great good.
Reforestation is one thing but the reasons for deforestation need to be addressed. The loggers are clearing the forest for soy crops for animal feed. If you eat beef you might be contributing to Amazon deforestation. Also red meat is now classed as probably carcinogenic and processed meat is a class one carcinogen. Please consider reducing your intake of meat for your health and that of the planet.
No, I don't get any meat from Brazil. Brazil sells a lot of soybeans, especially to China. Nobody grows soybeans to feed cattle lol... They soy bean crop is most valuable and then useless stalks and stems are recycled by being sent to cattle and goat farmers.
If the Tesla Robot could do this job, I would be very disappointed! The TeslaBot will (I hope) be able to do so much more including to think rather then to simply do repetitive work.
hi vikng.. Great news. We in Croatia have drones that also plant all types of trees. First, they can access places where it would be difficult for people to plant and trees have been destroyed. Second, they throw large amounts of so-called seed bombs containing the seeds of native trees specific to that area. In this way, they plant much more in a short time than the human hand could... Technology in the service of nature is great.. ;)
Can really see how emotional this topic is for you. It's indeed heartbreaking how such natural treasures are destroyed. Good to see we might turn the tide
This is amazing good news, Sam. We also need autonomous robot boats that clean the oceans of plastic waste!
Such a great idea. Thanks for posting this information Sam.
Glad it was helpful!
I keep thinking there might be huge solar farms with a small fleet of Optimus that all head out to clean and maybe even repair the panels daily. They charge at night from a battery charged from the cells. Someone somewhere can monitor it online but imagine a completely independent solar farm that doesn’t require any human to even visit for months at a time.
I do not think you have ever seen a system that cleans solar panels. It's simple but very effective. Using a fleet of Optimus to do this job may seem cool but actually it would be really inefficient operation wise and cost wise.
You are correct. I’m not picturing Optimus with dusters and a mop or anything but merely imagining a system that might be so utterly self sufficient that humans barely have to pay attention to it perhaps for months or years at a time.
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Absolutely fantastic. Thank you for shearing.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Drones to plant seedlings, great idea. Putting seeds into a pot, a human can outpace a robot several times over. We lived near a forestry research and cultivation centre in Vernon, B.C. Canada.
The seed planting was already machine automated 25 years ago.
The planting of the seedlings must be done by humans, but is also mechanically assisted due to rocks and overburdened ground. Amazing to see how very efficient the reforestation process can be.
This is great. Deforestation is a problem and things like this helps, but what we're doing to our oceans is the real problem. They provide most of our oxygen. I can't wait to see what they do in that arena.
Great! Bringing back these ecosystems is way more complicated than just planting trees, there's lots of other organisms as well, and not all the plants are well adapted to this, but it's something at least.
Another application of these kinds of devices is agriculture.
It was encouraging reading some of the comments. Maybe you can do a few Environmental Viking podcasts
Thanks for bringing this to our attention, Sam.
Our pleasure!
Thanks Sam for a great video. We are 'rewilding' about an acre and a half of land here in France. I used to cut the field using a diesel tractor (yuk) but 5 years ago we started planting trees and letting nature take its course wrt the grasses and self seeding. Now have about 150 trees of 14 different species..oak, sweet chestnut, walnut, hawthorn and hornbeam self seed but we've added alder, field maple, red oak, rowan, silver birch and even a gingko. Never realised how much pleasure we would get from seeing the field develop over the years as more varieties of wild flowers, butterflies and birds have turned up..In winter we get wild boar coming through at night churning things up a bit, as do moles with deer regular visitors as we see on the wildlife camera. On a large scale though robotics could make a real difference.
Nature is wonderful. It provides beauty, food and shelter for birds, bees, butterflies and all other wildlife.
Humans needs to stop poisoning the environment.
Great idea ... Nice video❤
The two soccer fields per day comment is misleading, this machine can plant that many seeds, if provided with the soil filled pots, and the planted pots are then soaked and moved onto lath houses for a year to grow out. With some care and regular irrigation, they can then be planted out by hand, by humans.
With limited staff, all labor saving devices can help. The fact that robots don't need a salary, medical care or retirement and will work as many hours per day as required, seven days a week is what makes them so useful.
But raising forest species for seed, or collecting wild seeds, and replanting them with drones will have the wider impact longterm.
Yes you are right
I agree, this is good news. We’ll be replacing the new with the the much better old, but I’ll take it.
Using drones shooting seeds and even young plants into the ground while using a map to precisely determine where the planting happens is the superior option.
Hello Sam,
I live in Brazil for 17 years now.
You name me one country where farmers are obliged to keep 20% of there farm with native forrest…
Name me one country where 68% of there land is forrest…
Name me one country that has farmeble land that is Left as a forrest…
Misinformation is used to Steal from Brazil and try to use it as a colonie , nobody can compeet with Brazilian agriculture , Brazil has a costadvantage of 80% against usa /europe . Só they start campaigns against Brazil to protect there agriculture. Of course there are problems , its a big área to protect , and lote of ilegal activities going on , lots of valuable things in This forrest.. if Brazilian forrest Bruns its a scaneando but if forrest in the rest of the world burns its an accident
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Thanks for the good news story, Sam.
Yumi is good news! Great little machine. And I think it will play an important role for reforestation. But, really there is a huge but! While I think that Yumi is usefull in high wage western countries, because no one can pay wages in western countries for those kind of work, but in those countries it would be socially better to let the people there this work and to pay them good wages. They should build up their own country and experience a double positive effect. Getting wages with which their families can have a good life and something with which they can identify with their work and country / land. Yes we need Yumi, but every penny that was saved in western countries with Yumi should be the wage for the people in Brazil or elsewhere on this planet.
Good idea
Many many thanks
Wow
Cool
Would be great
Good
Planting seeds and trees is something humans, even human children can do. This year, i planted about a dozen new fruit trees. It is very cheap to hire tree planting humans, I tree planted all summer in BC and did over 2000 cedars, one summer during my university
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Africa's great green wall would another place that could use this robot like the Amazon rain forrest.
I love when you joke
How about robots to fight deforestation in the first place?
Or fight desertification in Africa, to avoid the growing of the Sahara.
Why not both?
How about using excess solar and wind power when it soon becomes available in Australia to desalinate sea water for forest building.
If there is a way to solidify the minerals from the process into bricks, they can be used for structural purposes.
Then it won’t harmfully elevate the salinity of the sea water in the area of the process.
I wouldn’t want to live in a high rise building during a flood with salt brick construction,but it seems like a good place to incarcerate bad roofing contractors.
Oh, Sam!! Yumi needs those big sxaey robots to protect them from big scary mercenaries,trying to steal the land from those who WANT to deforest the jungle. Sad, but true...
VOCÊS ESTAO HA 2 ANOS CHUPANDO PENIS RUSSOS LA NA UCRANIA, PRIMEIRO PARE DE FAZER ISSO E DEPOIS TENHA MORAL DE FALAR FAZER GUERRA CONTRA O BRASIL, EU ACABEI DE ENTREGAR TEU IP PARA AS FORCAS ARMADAS DO BRASIL AGORA E VOCÊ ESTÁ SENDO RASTREADO PELO GOVERNO DO BRASIL AGORA.
Like almost every invention of man, it can be used for good and/or evil. How long before the vast majority of jobs are taken over by AI and robots? I spent years in the automation industry. Many of the jobs replaced were boring and repetitive. But they were jobs. Not everyone is able to train in mechatronics. The benefits of automation have flowed to the mega-rich, not to the average man.
Australia has the oldest rainforest on earth, but isn't doing a good job of preserving it either. Tasmania has logged the tallest trees in the world (Mountain Ash Eucalyptus). Most countries are bad at preserving natural forest. Canada logs its western rainforest for toilet rolls and wood chips!
Does not matter. The problem is people burning it down.
The Amazon has a 'River In The Sky'. Do your research.
Unquestionably the future. We won't survive without tapping into the unlimited potential of AI and AGI.
I always say tesla should have every Optimus go do community service/city maintenance on a set day. Just to see Tesla literally fixing the world!
More Yumis and less tree cutting.
Can we be objective and admit that Tesla has made the least progress of all the major AI efforts in the past five years? Yes, FSD has improved quite a bit recently, but when we tally progress from other machine-learning initiatives by comparison, they are behind, because full autonomy has a long ways to go yet. Optimus will have to work with, and understand human behavior and FSD is not built upon that (yet), so intelligent robots represent a much more ambitious leap than FSD by far.
Really?
Who put the bag into the crate and who put the dirt into the bag?
So buy a $100,000 robot to push a seed into bagged dirt.
You could hire a local for 5 to 10 years for the same $100,000 .
So you just put a very poor person out of work. great job.
And you missed something. WHERE is the APP.
Sam, you should be recognized for your humanitarian and environmental efforts. One of the reasons your following is growing so fast is your sincerity. Good on you, mate. ❤
Um, sorry but that looks ridiculous. Humans can plant trees in the wild faster, and they can plant them in nurseries faster. Robots are really, really expensive, and you need an expert to maintain them. We were all told in elementary school that the Amazon was being swiftly depleted, yet all these years later, it's still there. Trees can always be replanted by people and if they're volunteers they don't need to be paid. The soil is fertile there and it rains a lot. It's super easy to re-green the cut areas, and if you want old-growth forest, just buy the land and conserve it. That's called conservation. We're still a long ways off from robots doing all our work for us.
Abb publicity stunt.
For the cost of an abb robot you can hire 100 locals for 2 years…😂😂😂
Reforestation will be globally possible once precision fermentation and cellular agriculture will offer a compelling alternative to animal proteins
I dont feeel comfortable with a robot shooting anything
Point of contention: I think we CAN make more humans... Did your parents skip that talk with you?
Yes, but the quality control is nonexistant and most of the new humans are barely functional. Many even dangerously flawed.
@@lyfandeth well, I don't disagree with any of that.
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I'm still in the prototyping phase in the lab. You'd be surprised how many times we feel the need to repeat the experiments. Cant quite plant the seed in the right hole it seems.
@@lyfandethflawed. Like the visitors of this site 😅
@@bigrobsydney to para-quote Richard Feynman - ~"Shut up and experiment".
The problem in the amazon isn't that no one is planting trees. The problem is that nutrient in the forest is totally bound up in the existing canopy. The forest is clear cut, BURNED, and planted to feed cows. The burning removes significant amounts of the nutrients, and cows remove the rest. This kills the land, so another piece needs the same treatment. Until the soil is fertile again, planting trees isn't much help. And usually trees get planted in monocultures instead of the diversity that a forest, particularly a rain forest requires.
Plus, there are plenty of people there who could use the money that is going into the robot, for doing that work. Money to a rich country for making robots does no good, while paying locals does great good.
Reforestation is one thing but the reasons for deforestation need to be addressed. The loggers are clearing the forest for soy crops for animal feed. If you eat beef you might be contributing to Amazon deforestation. Also red meat is now classed as probably carcinogenic and processed meat is a class one carcinogen. Please consider reducing your intake of meat for your health and that of the planet.
No, I don't get any meat from Brazil. Brazil sells a lot of soybeans, especially to China. Nobody grows soybeans to feed cattle lol... They soy bean crop is most valuable and then useless stalks and stems are recycled by being sent to cattle and goat farmers.
If the Tesla Robot could do this job, I would be very disappointed!
The TeslaBot will (I hope) be able to do so
much more including to think rather then to simply do repetitive work.
Like hunting down and shooting those forest poachers?
Eh, tigh them fast to any tree left, I meant. Robots shouldn’t kill.