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Orchard vision system turns farm equipment into AI-powered data collectors
Agricultural robotics are not a new phenomenon. We’ve seen systems that pick apples and berries, kill weeds, plant trees, transport produce and more. But
That’s not to say that there isn’t still a ton of potential value in automating these tasks during labor shortages, but the young startup’s system is lowering the barrier of entry with a sensing module that attaches to exciting hardware like tractors and other farm vehicles. While plenty of farmers are happy to embrace technologies that can potentially increase their yield and fill in roles that have been difficult to keep staff, fully automated robotic systems can be too cost prohibitive to warrant taking the first step. “Our cameras image trees from bud to bloom to harvest, and use advanced computer vision and machine learning models we’ve developed to collect precise data about hundreds of millions of fruit,” says founder and CEO Charlie Wu.
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