Extended Data Fig. 7: Challenges associated with robotics and automated systems for urban biodiversity and ecosystems according to participants with environmental expertise and those with non-environmental expertise.
From: A global horizon scan of the future impacts of robotics and autonomous systems on urban ecosystems
a, Participants with environmental expertise (n = 65). b, Participants with non-environmental expertise (n = 33). The distribution of summed participant scores (range: -8 to +8) across four criteria (likelihood, impact, extent, novelty) for each of the 38 challenges. Items are ordered according to percentage of participants in (a) who gave summed scores greater than zero. Percentage values indicate the proportion of participants giving negative, neutral and positive scores (left hand side, central and right hand side of the shaded bars respectively). Boxes and * indicate a significant difference between the proportions of participants in (a) and (b) scoring the item greater than zero. The full wording agreed by the participants for each challenge can be found in Supplementary Table 1: ‘mm’ is an abbreviation for ‘monitoring and management’; item number given in parenthesis is for cross referencing between figures and tables.
