University of Nebraska Lincoln: USDA-NIFA Grant to Advance Ag Robot Research
April 13, 2021
April 13, 2021
LINCOLN, Nebraska, April 13 (TNSGra) -- The University of Nebraska Lincoln campus issued the following news release:
Santosh Pitla, associate professor of biological systems engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, can picture a future in which swarms of small autonomous robots roll through a corn or soybean field planting seeds or applying fertilizers. These highly sensitive robots could detect conditions -- soil makeup and moisture, for example -- across a given field an . . .
Santosh Pitla, associate professor of biological systems engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, can picture a future in which swarms of small autonomous robots roll through a corn or soybean field planting seeds or applying fertilizers. These highly sensitive robots could detect conditions -- soil makeup and moisture, for example -- across a given field an . . .