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EarthSense receives 2018 Edwin Moore Family Agriculture Innovation Prize
EarthSense, a company that develops ultracompact autonomous robots for crop breeders, agronomists, and growers, is the recipient of the second Edwin Moore Family Agriculture Innovation Prize.
By: Research Park at the University of Illinois
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UI professor develops farming robot to alleviate labor costs, increase efficiency
Researchers at the University developed robots to help farmers of the Midwest tend to their fields.
By : Veronica Mierek | Daily Illini
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Robots could be help shape the future of farming in Illinois
Robots developed by researchers at the University of Illinois are helping Midwest farmers in the fields.
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Cross a John Deere with a Roomba, and you get this crop-monitoring robot
Farms are a hotbed for automation. Robots, drones, and artificial intelligence have been assisting in agriculture for years and 2017 showed they could farm an acre and a half of barley, from planting to tending and harvesting, without a human stepping foot on the field.
By: Dyllan Furness | Digital Trends