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The combine harvester. These innovations have allowed our rapidly expanding species to feed itself and thrive. By sending robots, drones and algorithms out into the fields, farming now sits on the ...
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- Agricultural Robots in Crop Harvesting
- Agricultural Robots in Weeding and Mowing
- Agricultural Robots in Greenhouses
- Aerial Imagery Drones and Seed-Planting Drones
On its face, crop harvesting seems ripe for automation. It’s physically taxing and highly repetitive — the kind of labor that’s often most effectively targeted in the robot revolution. But that’s not necessarily the case. Picking crops also requires manual dexterity and a delicate touch. Many fruits bruise easily in the heat, and leafy vegetables a...
If you’ve ever tended a personal garden, you’re well aware that chores like mowing and weed control are both important and difficult. Commercial agriculturists know it too, but on a massive scale. Even when crop rotation is possible, many large outfits rely at least somewhat on the use of herbicides. But given the facts that plants can become resis...
Instead of bringing agricultural robots to the field, one of the next great advances in farming automation will bring the field to robots. There are several startups helping to plant the seed for a robotic-greenhouse future. Not everything is growable in this way, but for certain crops the improvements are striking. These companies promise a dramat...
Aerial imagery can save farmers a lot of time by giving them a bird’s eye view of crops. This way, they can quickly get a sense of vegetation’s health, insect issues, irrigation layouts and weed growth. It even allows them to precisely determine how much pesticide the crops require. Farmers can use a variety of subscription services to access these...
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- Robobee is in the hive. The famous “waggle dance” of honeybees — in which a worker returning to the hive signals the location of a food source by running in specific patterns near the entrance to the hive while vibrating its wings and body — has been known for more than 60 years.
- Robotic falcon on the hunt. When a falcon strikes, how does a flock of pigeons respond? The classic theory — often called the “selfish herd” hypothesis — assumes that every pigeon merely tries to get into the middle of the flock, so that the predator takes some other unfortunate bird.
- Robofish in school. Which fish in a school are most likely to lead the group? Most studies have suggested that the larger fish tend to have the most influence over where the school swims — but there’s a problem: Big fish are also older and more experienced, and they can act differently than their smaller schoolmates.
- Termite robots in a swarm. The previous studies used robots to infiltrate real groups of animals and provoke a response. But there’s another way to use robots to understand animal behavior: Program a swarm of robots to act according to the rules you think real animals are following, and see if the result mimics how the animals act.
Nov 29, 2021 · The US scientists who created the first living robots say the life forms, known as xenobots, can now reproduce – and in a way not seen in plants and animals. Formed from the stem cells of the ...
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Chinmay Soman. The University of Illinois' Distributed Autonomous Systems Laboratory is putting robot farmers through their paces. "A farm is going to need different kinds of robots," says Prof ...
Jan 19, 2020 · Published: January 19, 2020 1:59pm EST. A remarkable combination of artificial intelligence (AI) and biology has produced the world’s first “living robots”. This week, a research team of ...
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Mar 10, 2022 · Scientists fly it through plumes of whale blow to collect samples. The drone also takes photos and videos. Around the world, researchers are using drones to help study and protect animal populations. SnotBot is on a mission. The toaster-sized drone flies over the open ocean, directly above a rare sei whale.
