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Ag robot speeds data collection, analyses of crops as they grow

Date:
March 12, 2018
Source:
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Summary:
A new lightweight, low-cost agricultural robot could transform data collection and field scouting for agronomists, seed companies and farmers. The TerraSentia crop phenotyping robot measures the traits of individual plants using a variety of sensors, including cameras, transmitting the data in real time to the operator's phone or laptop computer.
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Agricultural and biological engineering professor Girish Chowdhary is leading a team that includes crop scientists, computer scientists and engineers in developing TerraSentia, a crop phenotyping robot.
Credit: L. Brian Stauffer