ep.267: Robotic Weeding and Harvesting, with Chris McCool and Chris Lehnert

Published: Aug. 19, 2018, 7 a.m.

In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Chris McCool and\xa0Chris Lehnert about different projects that relate to agriculture at the\xa0Queensland University of Technology.\xa0McCool speaks about\xa0a large robot for weed management in fields. The robot uses Real-time kinematic GPS (very accurate) and a camera with deep learning to recognize various types of plants.\xa0Lehnert speaks about a robot to harvest sweet peppers. The robot first grabs on to the sweet pepper with a suction cup and then uses a small saw to cut the fruit from the bush. Chris speaks about using their method for other crops, how their robot does in terms of deployment, and the future of agriculture.