🌳 The future of forests: Robotics and innovation in 2024

Hello and welcome to this week’s Forsler newsletter 👋🏻

First of all thank you all for the kind reception you’ve given our podcast! That just makes us even more excited to record the next bunch of episodes.

In this edition, we're excited to share a success story from Stora Enso, the latest product updates from Forsler, a deep dive into robotics in forestry, and a curated list of articles on sustainable innovation and automation.

💬 In this week’s issue:

• Foresting Tomorrow, podcast episode 2: BraSatt & BioCarbon engineering
• Robots in forestry: How robots and drones are changing the industry 📡
• New product feature: Get ready for EUDR with Forsler ✅
• For those who can't get enough: Explore the sources we used in the podcast 🤓

With that settled, let’s dive in ! 🌿

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🎙️ Podcast afsnit 2: BraSatt & BioCarbon engineering

In our latest episode we take a deep dive on planting robots. We’ll introduce you to drone planting robots - and self-driven robots that might be even better than us at planting trees.

We’ll also cover a brand-new innovation that enables us to use trees to make windows - the actual glass!

Later in the episode Rasmus also teaches us a thing or two about the world's largest and tiniest trees.

We’d love to hear what you think of the podcast. If you have any feedback, please send it to us.

🌳 Listen to the latest episode of Foresting Tomorrow here​ 🌳

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📃 Forestry of the future: How robots and drones are shaping the industry

Forestry is facing huge challenges in an era of extraordinarily high demand for wood, worsening climate change issues, and labour shortages. Could robotics be part of the solution?

In our latest article, we explore how technologies like the BraSatt planting robot and drones for planting trees might be the future. We also discuss the potential and challenges of these emerging technologies, as well as the leap from controlled test environments to wide-scale deployment.

Is fully automated forestry the future of forestry? Unlikely. But could we see autonomous robots in forests within a few years? There are indications that we might.

📄 Read the full article on robots and drones in forestry here 📄

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📣 Get ready for EUDR with Forsler

Despite the ongoing uncertainty surrounding EUDR, Forsler is ready with the correct export of geographic data for the place of harvest.

The GeoJSON file is easily exported and uploaded directly to the EU's TRACES system, where a DDS (Due Diligence Statement) must be prepared.

Watch a video of the system here →

Watch me demonstrate the file export here 👈🏻​

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Can’t get enough? Here’s more reading materials 🤓

If you want to dive deeper into the topics we discuss in the podcast, check out these articles:

• Wood Innovations That Help Shift Plastic to Planet
• Södra's Test Run of New Planting Machine Shows Promising Results
• World Economic Forum - BioCarbon Engineering
• The World's Tiniest Tree
• ​General Sherman (tree) - The World's Largest Tree

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Wishing you a fantastic week in the forest.

- Jens Isbak