The latest version of an autonomous robot that can scout for grape diseases in vineyards in near-real time, with an accuracy that matches highly trained human scouts, will one day help track crop-killing pathogens with minimal labor.
The latest version of an autonomous robot that can scout for grape diseases in vineyards in near-real time, with an accuracy that matches highly trained human scouts, will one day help track crop-killing pathogens with minimal labor.
The robot’s capabilities were reported in a paper, “PhytoPatholoBot: Autonomous ground robot for near real‐time disease scouting in the vineyard,” published Aug. 25 in the Journal of Field Robotics.
The development of the robot is critical as managing such diseases as powdery and downy mildews in vineyards is the top concern for grape growers and viticulturists.
Read more at: Cornell University
Robotics technician Cole Regnier works on an autonomous robot designed to detect disease on grapevines on the Cornell AgriTech campus in Geneva, New York. (Photo Credit: Ryan Young/Cornell University)
