Robotics Technology for Sustainable Society and Robotic Business

Persuasive technology for a sustainable society

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Cees Midden Persuasive technology for a sustainable society

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Disciplining the Sustainable City: Moving Beyond Science, Technology or Society?

Robotics for Sustainable Broad-Acre Agriculture

This paper describes the development of small low-cost cooperative robots for sustainable broad-acre agriculture to increase broad-acre crop production and reduce environmental impact. The current focus of the project is to use robotics to deal with resistant weeds, a critical problem for Australian farmers. To keep the overall system affordable our robot uses low-cost cameras and positioning s...

The sustainable planet: opportunities and challenges for science, technology and society.

The idea of this event, in the 350th Anniversary Year of the Royal Society, arose from discussions within the Durham Biophysical Sciences Institute in late 2008. The objective of the meeting as a whole was to consider both the positive and negative aspects of climate change and potential global shortages of both energy and natural resources; but with a perspective that embraced insights from ph...