With an ever growing world population, it gets harder and harder to feed everybody. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute think to have found a solution. The name of the initiative is FarmView, and they are trying to build mobile field robots that will help with plant breeding and crop-management using sensors. Through levels of speed and accuracy not attainable by humans, these robots would gather information to save water and nutrients, and improve the breeding process. In a model example, they could also predict the yield of a season, and then act accordingly, for example pruning leaves and thinning fruit.
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