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Michigan State University reports wider use of its irrigation app alongside research comparing soil sensors, evapotranspiration models and sap-flow measurements for scheduling water applications in apple orchards.
Michigan State University has secured more than US$16.2 million from USDA NIFA for research-greenhouse renovations, with university matching funds bringing the new support to more than US$32.5 million.
Michigan State researchers described a two-arm apple-picking robot with three-dimensional vision and soft suction grippers, citing prototype performance while planning a larger multi-module harvesting platform.
An NSF-supported collaboration involving Texas A&M, Michigan State and the University of Michigan will investigate coordinated aerial and ground robots for apples obscured by dense orchard canopies.
