From hand to machine, stripping cork, or ‘tiradia’, is an ancient art that is revived in each campaign and updated thanks to technological advances. The future of the forest and the cork industry depends on the ability to innovate through sophisticated extraction methods and disruptive forestry models. Tools such as sensors, genetic selection, geolocalisation and artificial intelligence, combined with drip irrigation and optical technology, are transforming the sector. And in the meeting of science, technology and know-how, the precision forest of the future is being born.