AI and robots

For those of you who like robots and drones with artificial intelligence systems and tools such as sensors and cameras, similar study and commercial use is being applied for such systems by farmers to help grow your food and other resources. David Sparks, Idaho AG today with Steven Mirsky of the Agricultural Research Service. Speaker2: Developing computer vision and AI platforms for researchers, breeders and farmers. A simple little robot that can drive through a field or this electrical unicycle, or whether it's on a large scale tractor with a spray rig. We have a modular platform that has a single code base that can serve on a wide range of platforms for collecting imagery and other data, and then building intelligence around that imagery to be able to select in a breeding program, to be able to help researchers evaluate plant performance, and for farmers to do variable rate inputs on their farms. It's the same camera system that can be used for a wide range of applications, and because it's a closed ecosystem as far as the technology, it can be mounted on any platform. Speaker1: What does a robot covered with sensors do for you? Speaker2: You can be mapping the plants, mapping their performance. Like how big are they? Are they under stress? What kind of stress are they experiencing? Water and drought stress. Is it nutrient stress? Or you could be quantifying. Have you lost plants just because something died? And then you could also be using that to then deliver nutrients or deliver other types of management practices. Go AI.