# The army of autonomous robots restoring nature

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED Countdown and Bezos Earth Fund
- Speaker: Tom Chi
- Year: 2025
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Earth and environment, Economics
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/tom_chi_the_army_of_autonomous_robots_restoring_nature)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Impact investor Tom Chi challenges a dangerous assumption: that economic growth and ecological health are opposing forces. He reveals how advances in AI and robotics are enabling a radical shift towards innovation as a force for restoration. Imagine mines that extract less, farms that regenerate soil and fleets of robots that can plant 100,000 mangroves in a single day. What if the same technologies that power our economy could actively repair the planet at the same time?

## Lectures

1. [The army of autonomous robots restoring nature](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/tom_chi_the_army_of_autonomous_robots_restoring_nature/833e13386eef), 19 min (TED's player)