Source: Margy Eckelkamp, AG PROFESSIONAL, 7/9/20


Rolling between the rows of standing crops, robots are demonstrating their value in improving upcoming yields. Plant scientists have found opportunity in deploying robots to collect data to drive their product development decisions.  Startup EarthSense says in 2019 its 40 robots collected more than 10 Terrabytes of data, and the company will more than double that number of units this year to close to 100 robots.  “In our earliest pilot trials in 2018 we tested our crop breeding robots with universities and seed companies,” explains EarthSense co-founder and CEO Chinmay Soman.

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