Laying the ground for robotic strategies in environmental protection

Roboticists have developed a robot named 'Romu' that can autonomously drive interlocking steel sheet piles into soil. The structures that it builds could function as retaining walls or check dams for erosion control, and, according to computer simulations, the robot could be deployed in swarms to help protect threatened areas that are flooded or extremely arid more effectively.

from Engineering News -- ScienceDaily http://bit.ly/2UEDZuV