By Krishna Ramanujan
The latest version of an autonomous robot that can scout for grape diseases in vineyards in near-real time, with an accuracy that matches highly trained human scouts, will one day help track crop-killing pathogens with minimal labor.
The robot’s capabilities were reported in a paper, “PhytoPatholoBot: Autonomous ground robot for near real‐time disease scouting in the vineyard,” published Aug. 25 in the Journal of Field Robotics.
A startup in California, co-founded by the paper’s first author, Ertai Liu, M.S. ’20, Ph.D. ’24, a postdoctoral researcher at Cornell Tech, aims to produce the PhytoPatholoBots for commercial use.
Read more in the Cornell Chronicle.
Krishna Ramanujan is a senior staff writer for the Cornell Chronicle.
