Following the machines, people and ideas shaping agriculture. Selected developments, clear context and a link to the original source.
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A conference paper outlines a vision-guided robotic pollination platform for strawberries grown in multi-tier urban-farm environments.
University of Arizona engineering students developed TOMI, a greenhouse robot prototype that moves along a defined route, uses fans for tomato pollination and captures images for automated pest recognition.
An Australian research team fitted a pollination fan to a self-guiding greenhouse robot, demonstrating autonomous operation across more than 30 crop rows at P’Petual Holdings’ commercial production facility.
XAG’s June 2021 report described an orchard demonstration in Nagano where its R150 vehicle sprayed a pollen solution, extending agricultural ground robotics beyond weeding and conventional crop protection.
A Cornell-led collaboration will develop robotic orchard operations while examining affordability and adoption, supported by a new USDA Specialty Crop Research Initiative award.
