Robots Roam at UI's $3.9 Million 'Farm of the Future'

10/20/2022

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The News-Gazette -- Between rows of corn near Curtis Road and Race Street sprouts bright-green cereal rye, planted by an autonomous robot. ... The autonomous robots used for the project are products of EarthSense, a Research Park startup created in 2016 by Girish Chowdhary, an associate professor of agricultural and biological engineering with Illinois Computer Science. Chowdhary is the I-FARM’s principal investigator.

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This story was published October 20, 2022.