Robots tending crops (IMAGE)

Iowa State University

Robots tending crops

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Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have developed small-scale robots that can fertilize, weed and cull single plants in a field. This photo shows testing in an Iowa State University soybean plot.

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Photo by Ashlyn Rairdin and courtesy of Soumik Sarkar/Iowa State University

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