Showing posts with label robots. Show all posts
Showing posts with label robots. Show all posts

Tuesday

Silent robots listen to ocean winds

10 April 2018

Monday

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