Miscellaneous

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https://youtu.be/FxkMCWqM9gQ

Hortibot - Field Robot Event 2007 in Wageningen - 13-14 June 2007

Uploaded on Apr 25, 2011


The video shows the demonstration of the Hortibot at the Field Robot Event 2007 in Wageningen Holland. The Hortibot is a Plant Nursing Robot for Horticulture and demonstrates weeding by use of a cell sprayer implement and a tine weeder. Unfortunately one of the actuators broke so was not possible to demonstrate a light weight corn seeder.

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Article "Northeast Iowa dairy farm shifts to robotic milking (https://www.thegazette.com/2013/04/04/northeast-iowa-dairy-farm-shifts-to-robotic-milking)"

by Chris Earl
April 4, 2013

[Airicist]

https://vimeo.com/64676353

Dairy & Data Aided by Robots
April 23, 2013


The Leech family, who own and operate Ingleside Dairy in Lexington, Va., installed six robotic milking machines that are fully-automated. They were the first machines of that kind to be installed in Virginia.

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/AP11BXmct0I

Tulip fields Holland - Keukenhof - Lisse (DJI Phantom 2 drone, GoPro, Netherlands); Tulpenvelden

Published on Apr 8, 2014


Tulpenvelden rondom Lisse en de Keukenhof april 2014. De opname zijn gemaakt met een Phantom 2 inclusief zenmuse en GoPro hero 3 black bij windkracht 5-6.

[Airicist]

https://vimeo.com/94827884

Osmy
from Adrien Frey
May 11, 2014


Osmy is a small robot which cares of your apartment plants.
It structures is mainly made of Meccano pieces, and an Arduino controls all electronics and sensors.
This robot was made during the Arduino-Meccano workshop at L'Ecole de Design Nantes-Atlantique, in 2014.
The workshop was sponsored by Meccano.

[Airicist]

https://vimeo.com/99758325

P-ROBOTIC COW_ITV2000_Vimeo
from ITV Central
July 2, 2014

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/Fk1Yn0aAURA

Robotic fruit picking project

Published on Sep 23, 2013


Progress at the 18 month mark.

The objective of this project is to develop an ultra low cost and weight modular and adaptable fruit picking robot suited to agricultural environments. Ideally cost should be so low as to make it pointless for others to compete as well as making large scale manufacture cheap and feasible.

As a function of the modular design, a vehicle trailer with 20 or more of a refined version would be used to pick various fruit and vegetable crops. Thus far progress is looking good with preliminary software, mechanical and electronic architectures demonstrating feasibility. Pushing ahead the next stage includes refinement and preparation for full speed picking field trials.

[Airicist]

https://vimeo.com/101154866

Cede Robot Watering Pots
from Optimus Meow
July 19, 2014

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/rQyfll8xM64

Automated Garden

Published on Oct 7, 2014


Check out the instructable for more details: instructables.com/id/Automated-Garden (https://www.instructables.com/id/Automated-Garden)

The last garden I planted next to my desk at work did not go so well. It suffered from a lack of sunlight as well as my hectic work schedule (i.e. lack of watering). It never managed to get quite enough sun or water. After a long mourning period had passed, I decided that the best way to improve the situation was to put the past behind me and start over with an automated garden.

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/y62uKfUb6qM

Mobile Sun-seeking Robot

Published on Nov 7, 2014


Learn more at:
instructables.com/id/Mobile-Sun-Seeking-Robot (https://www.instructables.com/id/Mobile-Sun-Seeking-Robot)

[Airicist]

"The Ultimate Guide to Agricultural Robotics (https://www.roboticsbusinessreview.com/article/the_ultimate_guide_to_agricultural_robotics)"
27 of the many agricultural robotics companies attempting to provide solutions for farming problems.

by Frank Tobe
November 17, 2014

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/yD9KUB7QqZI

SHEP the Drone - Worlds first Drone Sheepdog

Published on Mar 27, 2015


Watch the sheepdog of the future Shep the Drone as he moves sheep from one field to another. Filmed by Paul Brennan in Carlow Ireland.

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/v3YcZtlVrls

Drones and the future of farming

Published on Apr 14, 2015


From driverless tractors to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), farming technology is rapidly evolving. Farmers can use drones to identify specific plants that are diseased or infested with bugs, to save water and resources, and to get a bird's-eye view of their crops.

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/e95zrU45TfU

ar.drone2.0 tracking a red circle target on the floor

Published on May 11, 2013


https://youtu.be/5Wui9E9luGo

AR.DRONE2.0 tracking a red circle target

Published on Apr 16, 2013

Article "Baa, baa robot! Drone controlled by computer will be able to track and round up sheep and cows (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2331146/Baa-baa-robot-Drone-controlled-able-track-round-sheep-cows.html)"
Eye in the sky aid for farmers monitoring livestock in remote areas
French student develops robot which eventually could be controlled by a smartphone

May 26, 2013

[Airicist]

Article "Drones Close In On Farms, The Next Step In Precision Agriculture (https://singularityhub.com/2013/05/28/drones-close-in-on-farms-the-next-step-in-precision-agriculture)"

by Peter Murrayon
May 28, 2013

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/7wzIDWBkzgA

William Metz on the Potential of Drones in Precision Viticulture

Published on Dec 16, 2015


Granted a fellowship by the Villa d'Este Wine Symposium, viticulturalist William Metz spent a year evaluating the potential applications of drones in wine making – flying a senseFly-donated eBee mapping UAV at 15 vineyards across France, Switzerland and Germany. Here William summarises his project and describes the potential value drones can bring to the wine making process.

[Airicist]

Open Garden - Hydroponics & Garden Plants Monitoring for Arduino (https://www.cooking-hacks.com/documentation/tutorials/open-garden-hydroponics-irrigation-system-sensors-plant-monitoring)

[Airicist]

"Robot arm sorts and stacks delicate fruits (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-robot-arm-fruits-idUSKCN0V41F7)"

by Matthew Stock
January 26, 2016

[Airicist]

Agras MG-1 (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?13341), agriculture drone, DJI Innovations, Guangdong, China

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https://youtu.be/RQwSZa-1hQ8

Earthrise - Japan's Future Farms

Published on May 26, 2015


By 2050, the world will need to feed an additional 2.5 billion people living in cities. Yet as the demand for food rises, the amount of land available for agriculture in developed countries is expected to decline.

In Japan, at the Fujitsu factory of Aizu-Wakamatsu which still manufactures semiconductor chips for computers, a different project is underway which may offer a solution to this problem.

The company has converted an unused part of the factory into a farm to grow food - and more specifically, to grow lettuce. Fujitsu has focused on growing a low-potassium variety, which is sold to people with kidney problems who cannot process the mineral properly.

Join Rachel Mealey in Japan's Fukushima Prefecture to visit the sun-free and soil-free urban farms of the future.

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/tlREyPm2RpY

Small scale car-like robot using H_infinity control in the crop

Published on Feb 17, 2016


Small scale car-like robot using H_infinity control in the crop. Row follower proTotype.

[Airicist]

Article "Interview: the team behind the apple harvesting robot (https://www.clearpathrobotics.com/2016/03/grizzly-ruv-apple-harvesting-robot)"

by Chris Bogdon
March 7, 2016

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/qTRhudOzgzM

Unmanned aircraft applications to agriculture: today and tomorrow

Published on Mar 24, 2016


Crop producers are increasingly providing digital data to manage crop production on a more precise field scale. Crop and livestock monitoring by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), and the imagery collected with these systems, will provide additional data sets to increase precision management practices and yields for farmers and ranchers and, simultaneously, provide more effective safeguards for the natural environment.

John Nowatzki is an agricultural machine systems specialist in the Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering at North Dakota State University. His research uses Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) in crop and livestock applications to improve crop health and increase crop yields.

John is currently conducting applied research and University Extension programming in four areas: UAS applications to crop and livestock management, active optical sensor applications to field crop health, the impacts of soil compaction from wheel tracks on field crop yields, and the impacts of tree windbreaks on field crop yields.

[Airicist]

Article "10 strategies for bringing agricultural expertise to robotics startups (https://robohub.org/10-strategies-for-bringing-agricultural-expertise-to-robotics-startups)"

by Andra Keay
April 26, 2016

[Airicist]

Article "10 strategies for bringing agricultural expertise to robotics startups (https://robohub.org/10-strategies-for-bringing-agricultural-expertise-to-robotics-startups)"

by Andra Keay, Silicon Valley Robotics
April 26, 2016

[Airicist]

Article "Showcasing New Zealand AgTech: Bringing automation and robotics to the farm (https://robohub.org/showcasing-new-zealand-agtech-bringing-automation-and-robotics-to-the-farm)"

by Andra Keay, Silicon Valley Robotics
April 27, 2016

[Airicist]

Article "Farming with robots (https://robohub.org/farming-with-robots)"

by SPARC
May 4, 2016

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/tzSqEQOgS4M

Development and autonomous navigation of a field robot

Published on May 23, 2016


This video presents the development and autonomous navigation in a row crop of a low-cost four wheel differential-drive field robot. The platform features a passive articulated suspension system, that allows the chassis to adapt to the soil's morphology and its four drive wheels to remain in contact with the substrate during obstacle climbing.

The vehicle's motion control system includes individual PID controllers for closed-loop regulation of the four wheels' velocity. The platform is equipped with various internal state sensors and perceives its external environment by using only one web camera, installed on a pan/tilt mechanism. The images acquired by the webcam are processed in real-time by an Odroid Single-Board Computer, implementing a fuzzy logic motion controller that allows autonomous traversing of a row crop.

The robot has been developed at the Control Systems and Robotics Laboratory of the Technological Educational Institute of Crete, in Heraklion, Greece.

Postgraduate student: Em. Kalykakis
Supervisor: Dr. Em. Kavoussanos

[Airicist]

Article "The Rise of Small Farm Robots (https://medium.com/food-is-the-new-internet/the-rise-of-small-farm-robots-365e76dbdac1)"
Or why the miniaturization of farm machinery will help encourage small, diverse farms.

by Brian Halweil
May 17, 2016

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/OOLTFwul9fY

Intelligent Machines and Agriculture Summit (April 27, 2016)

Published on Jun 6, 2016


Intelligent Machines will help humans flourish in a world that becomes more mindful of its resources. With this in mind, Comet Labs recently gathered a small group of roboticists, data scientists, academics, investors, and industry experts to discuss the ways in which robotics and AI can meet the needs of the agriculture industry, specifically in growing and harvesting perma and row crops. The event was hosted in partnership with Driscoll's, Naturipe, Yamaha Motor Company and Orange at Rackspace in San Francisco, CA.

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/-swVaQzXgRw

Robot waters plants

Published on Jun 10, 2016


The task gives the robot a green thumb, quite literally. The Multipurpose Mobile Manipulator can water houseplants in an indoor environment using a specialized hose adapter that pours water from an upside-down water bottle located on the back of the robot. It searches for houseplants using an ultrasonic rangefinder on the other hand. With enough development, this task can evolve into a full fledged autonomous gardening and farming machine, where the robot monitors, fertilizes, and waters a row of plants over time.

[Airicist]

https://vimeo.com/171535571

The adventures of Strawberrybot
June 21, 2016


Pluto, The Strawberry-carrying ice-chest robot causes havoc and smushes strawberries.
Filmed at the Red Fire Farm Strawberry Fields in Montague, MA during their Annual Strawberry Soiree

[Airicist]

https://vimeo.com/173488304

Eric the robot
July 5, 2016


A team of engineering students from Harper Adams University came second in a recent international robotics competition.
Four 5th year MEng Agricultural Engineering students made up the Harper Adams team at Field Robot Event 2016 in Gut Mariaburghausen in Ha?furt, Germany.
Eric, seen here, was the robot the team had created for their group research project.

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/mNLXx7YdPsY

Tiny flying robot bees are being built to pollinate crops

Published on Jul 12, 2016

[Airicist]

Article "Idaho researchers creating ‘IdaBot,’ an autonomous utility robot (https://www.capitalpress.com/Research/20160712/idaho-researchers-creating-idabot-an-autonomous-utility-robot)"

by Sean Ellis
July 12, 2016

Article "Idabot Robot Tackles Mundane Farm Tasks (https://www.voanews.com/a/idabot-robot-tackles-mundane-farm-tasks/3571812.html)"

by June Soh
October 30, 2016

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Article "Robot cow ready to educate at Washington County Fair (https://poststar.com/news/local/robot-cow-ready-to-educate-at-washington-county-fair/article_7e65cfe8-bb30-58e2-a903-964ce0e7ce57.html)"

by Kathleen Moore
August 2, 2016

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/4HCE1P-m1l8

TensorFlow powered cucumber sorter by Makoto Koike

Published on Aug 4, 2016

"How a Japanese cucumber farmer is using deep learning and TensorFlow (https://www.engadget.com/2016/08/31/google-ai-helps-cucumber-farm)"

by Kaz Sato
August 31, 2016

"Google AI builds a better cucumber farm (https://www.engadget.com/2016/08/31/google-ai-helps-cucumber-farm)"
Machine learning helps sort veggies so the farmer can focus on more important work.

by Jon Fingas
August 31, 2016

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/AyWl3TGG--4

Arduino robot and harvest of potatoes

Published on Sep 10, 2016


Arduino robot and harvest of potatoes

[Airicist]

Article "Top 10 technologies in precision agriculture (https://robohub.org/top-10-technologies-in-precision-agriculture)"

by Frank Tobe
September 14, 2016

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/JvpJTG4y9K0

Farmer robot

Published on Sep 26, 2016

Hushmand Afzar Co., LTD. (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?6234)

[Airicist]

Report "Robot Harvest: Agribotics for Farm, Field and Orchard (https://www.roboticsbusinessreview.com/download/robot-harvest-agribotics-farm-field-orchard)"

[Airicist]

Article "Digital farms are already a reality (https://robohub.org/digital-farms-are-already-a-reality)"

by Frank Tobe
November 10, 2016

[Airicist]

Article "Rising need for nursery, indoor and vertical farming (https://robohub.org/rising-need-for-nursery-indoor-and-vertical-farming)"

by Frank Tobe
November 28, 2016

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Article "Five ways agriculture could benefit from artificial intelligence (https://www.ibm.com/blogs/watson/2016/12/five-ways-agriculture-benefit-artificial-intelligence)"

by Madalina Irimia
December 14, 2016

[Airicist]

"UCF Researchers Working on Disease-Detecting Robot (https://today.ucf.edu/ucf-researchers-working-disease-detecting-robot)"

by Zenada Kotala
March 9, 2015

[Airicist]

Article "How AR technology can help farmers stay relevant (https://robohub.org/how-ar-technology-can-help-farmers-stay-relevant)"

by John Payne
January 19, 2017

[Airicist]

Article "How regenerative agriculture and robotics can benefit each other (https://robohub.org/how-regenerative-agriculture-and-robotics-can-benefit-each-other)"

by John Payne
January 25, 2017

[Airicist]

Article "Vertical farms profiled on CBS Morning News (https://robohub.org/vertical-farms-profiled-on-cbs-morning-news)"

by Frank Tobe
April 5, 201

[Airicist]

Article "UAV-based crop and weed classification for future farming (https://robohub.org/uav-based-crop-and-weed-classification-for-future-farming)"

by Philipp Lottes, Raghav Khanna, Johannes Pfeifer, Cyrill Stachniss and Roland Siegwart
June 28, 2017

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/CKYJO-Ha80E

Autonomous agricultural robot

Published on Jul 6, 2017


This autonomous agricultural robot is designed to to work in a research field at a major university. We built two of them for them and they are quite impressive.

They can be operated with a programmed route, or be controlled via 'point and click'. The latter has the operator choose waypoints on a map, and the robot navigates to it while avoiding obstacles.

SuperDroid Robots, Inc. (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?3677)

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/Q5ZmnGm1cEo

Geosurvey Collect, plant telemedicine use case, v1.0

Published on Jul 13, 2017


An end-to-end demonstration of using Geosurvey Collect and Geosurvey to diagnose plant illnesses and send remote recommendations in real-time.

Make Agronomy Great Again!

[Airicist]

Article "The agricultural labor conundrum (https://robohub.org/the-agricultural-labor-conundrum)"

by Frank Tobe
August 9, 2017

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/Rl77FVobxVI

The farming robots of tomorrow are here today

Published on Aug 15, 2017


Robot farming machines are already doing the dirty work in more fields than people may realize.

[Airicist]

Article "EU’s future cyber-farms to utilise drones, robots and sensors (https://robohub.org/eus-future-cyber-farms-to-utilise-drones-robots-and-sensors)"

by Horizon Magazine
August 25, 2017

[Airicist]

Article "Can Artificial Intelligence Help Feed The World? (https://www.forbes.com/sites/themixingbowl/2017/09/05/can-artificial-intelligence-help-feed-the-world)"

by Rob Trice
September 5, 2017

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/y0UrMbuYTxk

China Robot Harvest

Published on Sep 19, 2017


Overview of the China Robot Harvest project, on automated harvesting of tomatoes. Project led by Plymouth University, with Sunqiao and Shanghai Jiaotong University as partners, summer 2017. Agri-Tech in China: Newton Network+ (ATCNN)
funding. Effort supported by Fieldwork Robotics Ltd, Plymouth, UK. Video by Jake Shaw-Sutton.

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/fz0AWSRUWPE

Simon Beard and Andrew Ware discuss AI and agriculture

Published on Sep 22, 2017


Dr Simon Beard, Research Associate at Cambridge University's Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, discusses AI and agriculture with Andrew Ware.

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/ILpLeu7O0LA

Australian agtech company expands its AI tech, helping growers combat climate change

Published on Dec 11, 2017


Australian agtech company The Yield is revolutionizing farming practices by using artificial intelligence and machine learning to help growers understand data and adopt more sustainable practices.

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/SjYKibAHWUU

Simon Jordan - 2018 year of robot farming

Published on Feb 22, 2018


Automation is making its way from the factory floor to the farm. A confluence of critical technologies: Robotics, AI and machine vision, are making the prospect of robots in agriculture a practical reality. Simon Jordan discusses the landscape in this video.

[Airicist]

Article "Dual-armed robot to lend a helping hand or two come cucumber harvesting time (https://newatlas.com/cucumber-harvesting-robot/53425)"

by David Szondy
February 16, 2018

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/oot55bK62pk

AI and the future of agriculture

Published on Mar 14, 2018


Simon Jordan, Robotics & Control Lead, explains how agriculture will benefit from advances in machine vision and AI.

New technologies are making huge steps forward, enabling machines to be adaptable and treat plants at an individual level by recognising shapes and texture. From counting apples and estimating yields to identifying weeds in crops, machines are getting smarter.

Cambridge Consultants (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?t=12795)

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/CRwAE7UrLDA

AI-equipped tomato harvesting robots to farms may help to create jobs (https://news.panasonic.com/global/stories/2018/57801.html)

Published on May 23, 2018


The number of people engaged in agriculture in Japan is decreasing, and the country's elderly population is rapidly increasing. Agricultural high-tech is one of the measures that are seen as a solution to these problems. In the midst of this, "harvesting robots" driven by AI and robotic technology are gathering attention. The idea is to leave harvesting work, which accounts for 20% of all agricultural work, to robots in order to increase efficiency. Advanced farms are already appearing that have put robots to work and are developing technology and know-how....

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/MD61bddZtbg

PlantVillage: AI Helping Farmers Detect Plant Diseases

Published on Jun 20, 2018


PlantVillage and the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) are using machine learning to help farmers grow better cassava, a crop that provides food for over half a billion people daily.

plantvillage.psu.edu (https://plantvillage.psu.edu)

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/UigBb0TNbH8

ALIGN Demeter Agricultural Helicopter

Published on Jan 11, 2019

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/D0_R2dAkWM8

John Deere Autonomous 8370R Row Crop Tractor Hands-On at CES 2018

Published on Jan 14, 2019

[Airicist]

Gardening / Agricultural Robot (https://www.hackster.io/theparticleguy/gardening-agricultural-robot-e7b08b)
A gardening / agricultural robot, which performs various gardening tasks using STM32F407 DISCO and programmed using Ada.

February 15, 2019

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/dgUIcg7sDo8

ABB Pioneers: Writing the future of smart agriculture. Ep03

Published on Feb 16, 2019


ABB goes beyond the track of the ABB FIA Formula E Championship in Mexico City to discover how can data and machine learning help a local pioneer realize his vision of bringing smart agriculture to local farmers.

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/VNRR8mUluL4

Delta Drone - agriculture solutions

Published on Jan 21, 2019

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/fi4JiPW4AY8

Future of Farming: how is technology transforming agriculture?

Published on Apr 8, 2019


To take the success of the solar-powered flight around the world further, the Solar Impulse Foundation is selecting 1000 solutions that protect the environment in a profitable way and awarding them the Solar Impulse Efficient Solution Label.

The Solar Impulse Efficient Solution label seeks to bridge the gap between ecology and economy, bringing together protection of the environment and financial viability to show that these solutions are not expensive fixes to problems, but rather opportunities for clean economic growth.

[Airicist]

"AI In Agriculture: A Powerful Force For Good (https://www.forbes.com/sites/intelai/2019/04/11/ai-in-agriculture-a-powerful-force-for-good)"

April 11, 2019

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/q8oPxP861Nw

China Robot Harvest ++

Published on Apr 26, 2019


Field testing of variable-stiffness tomato picking robot on commercial tomato crops in Shanghai, China in January 2019. Fully autonomous picking loop, manual positioning for this experiment. Variable-stiffness picking arm from Fieldwork Robotics Ltd, UK, modified for tomatoes. Tests done at Sunqiao agricultural research station in Pudong, Shanghai. Thanks to ATCNN, Newton, De Tao, and Rothamsted. Thanks also to partners at Sunqiao and SJTU in China, University of Plymouth and Fieldwork Robotics Ltd in the UK. Video featuring Frederico Belmont Klein, Benjamin M. Green, and Dr. Martin F. Stoelen.

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/abJS4v-UX7A

The tomato whisperer – artificial intelligence in agriculture

Published on May 9, 2019


An encounter at the crossroads of tomorrow’s agriculture and traditional farming: how Bosch AI "Plantect" helped Tadashi Fukuoka, a Japanese tomato grower, increase his farm’s yield, save time, and dispense with some worries.

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/b69JMVbhMWw

Automated driving methods for smart farming

Published on May 13, 2019


Smart farming has introduced a high level of automation and saved millions of tons of pesticides. The missing link for optimizing farming is heading in the direction of autonomous operations in order to optimize resources, increase the level of efficiency and reduce costs. The aim is to transfer technologies from the automotive domain and adapt them to the agriculture sector as much as possible, adding additional features, such as the introduction of new type of sensors, platforms and/or communication networks. The developed V&V tools and demonstrators will improve the testing workflow for autonomous farming systems.

Tecnalia Corporation (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?t=2876)

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/vZCGSP3A0Fo

The next global agricultural revolution | Bruce Friedrich

Published on Jun 19, 2019


Conventional meat production causes harm to our environment and presents risks to global health, but people aren't going to eat less meat unless we give them alternatives that cost the same (or less) and that taste the same (or better). In an eye-opening talk, food innovator and TED Fellow Bruce Friedrich shows the plant- and cell-based products that could soon transform the global meat industry -- and your dinner plate.

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/GfQbBrSgvAQ

How AI is transforming Cassava crop yields

Published on Jul 22, 2019


Dr. Laura Boykin explains how the Cassava Virus Action Project are empowering farmers and improving Cassava crop yields in East Africa using Oxford Nanopore Technologies’ MinIT device, powered by NVIDIA AGX.

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/LrDey_iTPIE

AI Does Food | Joel Cuello | TEDxUofA

Published on Sep 28, 2018


Our planet sorely needs the help of artificial intelligence to achieve the increase in food production that our growing population demands in the face of scarce resources.

AI will help realize Cuello’s Law, which is the projected industry goal that crop productivity per unit resource use in a tech-dense vertical farm must double every 4-5 years.

The Global Marshall Plan for AI-based Food Production is introduced here to provide capacity building so that no nation is left behind in AI-based food production, making sure that AI will be used to produce food sustainably, not only for some, but for all of us on the planet.
Joel Cuello is a Professor of Biosystems Engineering and Director of the Global Initiative for Strategic Agriculture in Dry Lands (GISAD) at The University of Arizona. A globally recognized expert in the engineering of sustainable biological and agricultural systems, Joel has designed various engineered systems, including those applied in bioregenerative space life support, industrial mass production of algae cultures, and vertical farming.

[Airicist]

Article "Farmers are using AI to spot pests and catch diseases — and many believe it’s the future of agriculture (https://www.businessinsider.com/farmers-artificial-intelligence-in-agriculture-catch-disease-pests)"

by Nisha Stickles
November 8, 2019

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/kNQLE9mBblA

Jun 12, 2019

"This Japanese “Duck” robot replaces pesticides in rice fields (https://www.techexplorist.com/japanese-duck-robot-replaces-pesticides-rice-fields/24323)"
This robot ‘duck’ could help Japanese rice farmers keep paddy fields clear of weeds

by Ashwini Sakharkar
June 24TH, 2019

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/z9jXW9r1xr8

Are indoor vertical farms the future of agriculture? | Stuart Oda

Feb 7, 2020


By 2050, the global population is projected to reach 9.8 billion. How are we going to feed everyone? Investment-banker-turned-farmer Stuart Oda points to indoor vertical farming: growing food on tiered racks in a controlled, climate-proof environment. In a forward-looking talk, he explains how this method can maintain better safety standards, save money, use less water and help us provide for future generations.

[Airicist]

Article "How can I start with AI in agriculture? (https://becominghuman.ai/how-can-i-start-with-ai-in-agriculture-29f7969ae1d9)"

by Rayan Potter
February 25, 2020

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/YSzNVrHjQ98

Cultivating intelligence in agricultural robots | TC Sessions: Robotics + AI 2020

Mar 6, 2020


The benefits of robotics in agriculture are undeniable, yet at the same time only getting started. Lewis Anderson (Traptic) and Sebastien Boyer (Farmwise) will compare notes on the rigors of developing industrial-grade robots that both pick crops and weed fields respectively, and Pyka’s Michael Norcia will discuss taking flight over those fields with an autonomous crop-spraying drone.

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https://youtu.be/EFC3OvkVKaQ

Robot uses machine learning to harvest lettuce

Jul 8, 2019


Crops such as potatoes and wheat have been harvested mechanically at scale for decades, but many other crops have to date resisted automation. Iceberg lettuce is one such crop. Although it is the most common type of lettuce grown in the UK, iceberg is easily damaged and grows relatively flat to the ground, presenting a challenge for robotic harvesters.

The ‘Vegebot’, developed by a team at the University of Cambridge, was initially trained to recognise and harvest iceberg lettuce in a lab setting. It has now been successfully tested in a variety of field conditions in cooperation with G’s Growers, a local fruit and vegetable co-operative.

Although the prototype is nowhere near as fast or efficient as a human worker, it demonstrates how the use of robotics in agriculture might be expanded, even for crops like iceberg lettuce which are particularly challenging to harvest mechanically.

"Vegebot robot applies machine learning to harvest lettuce (https://www.therobotreport.com/vegebot-robot-applies-machine-learning-harvest-lettuce)"

July 7, 2019

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https://youtu.be/9LL1mbiTcKM

Arduino AgroDrone

May 16, 2020

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Article "Agritech Startups On Making Farms Profitable, Resilient And Sustainable Through The Power Of AI (https://inc42.com/features/agritech-startups-leveraging-ai-to-make-farms-profitable-resilient-sustainable)"

by Amit Raja Naik
May 25, 2020

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https://youtu.be/0WR4BeFcLks

Infosys (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?t=14688): smart agriculture solution

Jul 6, 2020


Infosys explains how an enterprise can become a Live enterprise. One that is sensing, responding and evolving with the needs of the time. We do this by deploying the right technology capabilities and solutions.
One such example is in our own Smart farm in Hyderabad, India. See how Infosys is using drones and other new technologies to navigate the farm of the future.

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https://youtu.be/8A4Smye80Lw

The robotic farms saving us from drought

Jul 7, 2020


Would you drink purified garbage juice or eat food grown in a warehouse? In episode three of Hacking the Apocalypse, Claire Reilly explores the tech saving the planet's water.

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https://youtu.be/FHmpKb0SR7Y

Can AI transform our agriculture sector? | Last Week in INDIAai Podcast | Episode# 6

Jul 20, 2020

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Article "Robot reapers and AI: Just another day on the farm (https://www.zdnet.com/article/robot-reapers-and-ai-just-another-day-on-the-farm)"
Pressures on agriculture have forced a technological revolution that are driving a new age of farming.

by Greg Nichols
October 7, 2020

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Article "Drones and AI detect soybean maturity with high accuracy (https://techxplore.com/news/2020-12-drones-ai-soybean-maturity-high.html)"

by Lauren Quinn
December 7, 2020

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https://youtu.be/8HZ4DnVfWYQ

RUSSIAN CYBERPUNK FARM // РУССКАЯ КИБЕРДЕРЕВНЯ

Nov 19, 2020


They say that Russia is a technically backward country, there are no roads, robotics do not develop, rockets do not fly, and mail goes too long. It’s a bullshit.

Говорят, что Россия – технически отсталая страна, нет дорог, роботехника не развивается, ракеты не летают, а почта идет слишком долго. It’s a bullshit.

Written and directed by: Sergey Vasiliev
Acting: Sergei Chikhachev
Olga Zhevakina


https://youtu.be/NuOUqIY0P2g

Как снимали RUSSIAN CYBERPUNK FARM // РУССКАЯ КИБЕРДЕРЕВНЯ — будет ли продолжение?

Nov 22, 2020


На днях на Ютубе из ниоткуда появился ролик про русскую кибердеревню, который меньше чем за сутки собрал миллион просмотров, а уже сейчас добрался почти до трёх.

Алексей Луцай созвонился с режиссёром ролика, Сергеем Васильевым, и выяснил, зачем и как это ролик сняли, а ещё будет ли у этой вселенной продолжение.

В кадре: Сергей Васильев, Алексей Луцай
Монтаж: Алексей Луцай

facebook.com/Izhevsk-Dynamics-Corporation-105691371368350 (https://www.facebook.com/Izhevsk-Dynamics-Corporation-105691371368350)

"Russian Cyberpunk: какой могла бы быть российская деревня будущего (https://808.media/russian-cyberpunk-future-farm)"

November 20, 2020

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Article "How AI will solve agriculture's water efficiency problems (https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/01/ai-agriculture-water-irrigation-farming)"

by Raviv Itzhaky (https://www.linkedin.com/in/raviv-itzhaky-688b7925)
January 15, 2021

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Article "AI strawberries and blockchain chicken: how digital agriculture could rescue global food security (https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/01/china-digital-agriculture-global-food-security)"

by Winston Ma Wenyan
January 26, 2021

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/bpa1iiJmR3Q

7 farming robots to change agriculture

Dec 1, 2020


7 farming robots to change agriculture. Robots in farming have never been so important as they are know. Agriculture robotics help humans in farming and the demand for AI robots is huge since many tasks are still performed semi manually or technology does not payoff at the current stage. However, farming robots are already doing the dirty work in more fields than people may realize.

Agricultural robots automate slow, repetitive and dull tasks for farmers, allowing them to focus more on improving overall production yields. Some of the most common robots in agriculture are used for: Harvesting and picking. Weed control.

In this video:
0:00​ ➤ Intro
0:18​ ➤ Tevel - Drone fruit picker.
tevel-tech.com
1:06​ ➤ Cambridge University - Lettuce harvester.
www.cam.ac.uk
1:48​ ➤ AgXeed - AgBot.
agxeed.com
2:28​ ➤ Octinion - Rubion.
picking.technology
3:23​ ➤ John Deere - Autonomous Sprayer.
deere.com
4:23​ ➤ Volocopter - VoloDrone.
volocopter.com
5:21​ ➤ John Deere - Autonomous Electric Tractor
deere.com

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https://youtu.be/Vd5Kzre7GxM

Grain Bin Robot | Grain Weevil

Premiered Apr 20, 2021


"Build a Robot so I never have to climb into a grain bin again."

Grain bins are extremely dangerous places for farmers of all ages - The Grain Weevil was built to save lives. The auger-style robot levels grain in the bin to help break up crusts and bridges, avoid entrapments, and improve grain quality.


https://youtu.be/o5DfqvGpNJ8

Grain Weevil: 2021 $10,000 “Eat it!” Lemelson-MIT Student Prize Undergraduate Team Winner

Apr 26, 2021


Large grain bins are used to store surplus grain supplies and allow farmers to hold their yield for higher prices. Managing grain condition and extraction require farmers to physically enter the grain bin, which is difficult and dangerous, often trapping and even killing farmers. A lack of proper management and extraction systems cause a 30% loss in cereal grain value worldwide. The Grain Weevil is a grain extraction and bin management robot that scurries across the top of the grain within a bin, smoothing out clumps so that the grain can be properly aerated and easily extracted from the bin. This device helps farmers safely and efficiently manage the extraction of grain from the bin, as well as maintain grain quality while in storage.

grainweevil.com (https://www.grainweevil.com)

twitter.com/grain_weevil (https://twitter.com/grain_weevil)

linkedin.com/company/grainweevil (https://www.linkedin.com/company/grainweevil)

Co-founder and CIO - Ben Johnson (https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjaminhjohnson)

Co-founder - Chad Johnson (https://www.linkedin.com/in/chadjohnson72)

"A Robot Could Save Farmers From Being Buried Alive in Grain (https://www.freethink.com/articles/grain-weevil-robot)"
The Grain Weevil robot is designed to keep farmers — and their children — out of harm’s way.

by Kristin Houser (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristinjhouser)
June 20, 2021

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https://youtu.be/1FLD0djPFgU

Towards robotic harvesting: mapping, localization, planning and control for a legged tree harvester

Nov 8, 2021


Full title: Towards Autonomous Robotic Precision Harvesting: Mapping, Localization, Planning and Control for a Legged Tree Harvester

We present an integrated system for performing precision harvesting missions using a legged harvester (HEAP) in a confined, GPS denied forest environment. The mission starts with a human mapping the area of interest using a custom-made sensor module. Subsequently, a human expert selects the trees for harvesting. The sensor module is then mounted on the machine and used for localization within the given map. Upon reaching the approach pose, the machine grabs a tree with a general-purpose gripper. This process repeats for all the trees selected by the operator. Our system has been tested on a testing field with tree trunks and in a natural forest.

The paper can be found on arxiv:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.10110

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Article "Farming Drives Toward ‘Precision Agriculture’ Technologies (https://www.wired.com/story/farming-drives-towards-precision-agriculture-technologies)"
Although real-world data is scant, proponents say robotics and AI will soon revolutionize agriculture.

by Tom Johnson
May 14, 2022

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Article "Will this fruit-picking robot transform agriculture? (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/28/robot-agriculture-farming-artificial-intelligence)"
Creating a machine that can perform the delicate work of picking an apple is tricky – and farmworkers say it could be a benefit

by Jyoti Madhusoodanan (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jyoti-madhusoodanan-b53a8112)
May 28, 2022

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"Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture (https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/artificial-intelligence-in-agriculture)"

Volume 7
March 2023

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Article "Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture: Rooting Out the Seed of Doubt (https://intellias.com/artificial-intelligence-in-agriculture)"
AI can change the future of agriculture, but we need to help farmers implement it the right way

by Dmytro Lenniy (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dmitry-lennoy)
February 10, 2022

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Article "Reaping the Fruits of Vertical Farming Technology to Maximize Yields (https://intellias.com/vertical-farming-technology-to-maximize-yields)"
Discover the elaborate systems that enable sustainable vertical farming technologies

by Dmytro Lenniy (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dmitry-lennoy)
November 23, 2022

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Article "AI for agriculture: How Indian farmers are harnessing emerging technologies to sustainably increase productivity (https://www.weforum.org/impact/ai-for-agriculture-in-india)"

January 19, 2023

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Article "8 Practical Applications of AI in Agriculture (https://www.v7labs.com/blog/ai-in-agriculture)"
From automated pest and plant disease detection to intelligent spraying and produce sorting—here's how Computer Vision is transforming the food and agriculture sector.

by Alberto Rizzoli (https://www.linkedin.com/in/albertorizzoli)
February 2, 2023

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"Autonomous Farm Equipment Global Market Report 2023 (https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2023/02/17/2610759/0/en/Autonomous-Farm-Equipment-Global-Market-Report-2023.html)"
Major players in the autonomous farm equipment market are Claas KGaA GmbH, Deutz Fahr, AGCO Corporation, John Deere, Case IH, Agrobot, Autonomous Tractor Corporation, Yanmar, Iseki & Co, and Kubota.

February 17, 2023

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Article "Artificial Intelligence In Agtech Is Blooming (https://news.crunchbase.com/agtech-foodtech/artificial-intelligence-agtech-source-ag)"

by Keerthi Vedantam (https://www.linkedin.com/in/keerthi-vedantam-2a686948)
February 23, 2023

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Article "Here Are 3 Big Areas Where AI Is Cropping Up In Agtech (https://news.crunchbase.com/ai-robotics/agtech-indoor-farming-openai-plenty)"

by Keerthi Vedantam (https://www.linkedin.com/in/keerthi-vedantam-2a686948)
March 17, 2023

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Article "America’s Farmers Are Bogged Down by Data (https://www.wsj.com/articles/americas-farmers-are-bogged-down-by-data-524f0a4d)"
Uptake of agtech tools has been tepid, and even many farmers who do use them struggle with the software and a flood of data from their farms

by Belle Lin (https://twitter.com/bellelin_)
August 22, 2023

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Article "Larry Ellison and Elon Musk teaming up to bring AI to farming (https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-larry-ellison-team-up-ai-farming-tool-starlink-2024-3)"

by Jyoti Mann (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jyoti-mann-873a4317b)
March 13, 2024