Industrial robot manufacturer ABB Robotics is collaborating with U.S. non-profit organization Junglekeepers to automate reforestation tasks in the Amazon.

ABB’s robot, dubbed YuMi, is automating planting in a jungle laboratory, thereby expediting the process and enabling Junglekeepers’ volunteers to redirect their focus to more value-added tasks.

Source: ABB

According to ABB, YuMi has been stationed at a jungle lab in a remote region of the Peruvian Amazon, where it digs holes in the soil, drops seeds in, compacts the soil on top and marks it with a color-coded tag.

Consequently, this allows for YuMi to reforest an area the size of two soccer fields each day.

For more on reforesting the Amazon with YuMi, watch the accompanying video that appears courtesy of ABB Robotics.