Tired of working in the garden by yourself? Well students at MIT have created something for you.

The “MIT Robot Gardener” was designed to provide you with assistance. Each robo-gardener was provided with a watering pump attached to its robotic arm.

Sensors on each plan networked back to the gardeners send water or nutrient request signals back to the gardener. When the plants have a ripe tomato, the machines use their arms to pluck the fruit

The concept for the Robot Gardener came from Nikolaus Correll, a postdoctoral assistant. It is the hope similar technology eventually could be used by farmers to reduce the natural resources and the difficult labor needed to tend crops.
Specifications

• Availability (TBD): Concept gadget still in evolution phase
• Designer: MIT’s CSAIL (Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab)
• Base: versions of iRobot’s Roomba
• Dimensions: Unknown

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For more information look at page 8 of MIT Tech Talk (March 18 2009)

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