Editorial: Robotic applications for a sustainable future
Franziska Kirstein, Sharath Chandra Akkaladevi, Fausto Ferreira, Amit Kumar Pandey · 2026
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Franziska Kirstein and fellow editors introduce a research collection on robots for a sustainable future in a 2026 editorial. Climate change, shrinking resources, species loss, and growing waste call for scalable answers, and robots can watch ecosystems, save inputs on farms and in factories, and take on hazardous work. Pairing robot bodies with human judgment adds further reach.
The editors note the promise is not automatic and ask under what conditions robots truly help, across home, farm, and heavy industry settings. Contributions span drone monitoring of the environment and other field uses, weighed against economic and social effects. The collection aims to join scattered work into one cross-cutting view of robotics and sustainability.
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| CREATOR | Franziska Kirstein, Sharath Chandra Akkaladevi, Fausto Ferreira, Amit Kumar Pandey |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 8099 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |