This Gardener doesnt have a green thumb
Posted by technogeek in Cell Phone, Concept Gadgets, Home & Garden, Robot Technology

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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