Vision for ultra-precision ag: Machine learning, plant sensing, robots tending crops
E-Mail IMAGE: Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have developed small-scale robots that can fertilize, weed and cull single plants in a field. This photo shows testing in an Iowa State... view more Credit: Photo by Ashlyn Rairdin and courtesy of Soumik Sarkar/Iowa State University AMES, Iowa - A gardener hoping for a crop of the juiciest summer tomatoes might tend to each and every plant in a plot. But a farmer working to feed the world? Researchers believe it's possible. They're applying and integrating layers of technologies - including sensors, machine l...
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