Members of the U of A s Agricultural Systems and Technology Club recently spent a day at the Greenway Technology Farm in Newport to learn about advances featured in John Deere tractors and machinery.
The team s autonomous cotton harvester robot successfully detected and picked ripe cotton balls, storing them while avoiding unripe cotton balls. The team finished fourth in national competition.
The National Science Foundation awarded an Innovation Corps entrepreneurship grant to an Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station research team for a machine vision system developed using artificial intelligence-guided imaging.