April 13, 2009 at 5:00 am by Luanne Bradley
Robot Gardeners: No Green Thumbs, But Could Prove Handy
Move over, Martha Stewart. Some new gardeners are coming to town, or at least, to Cambridge.
Small and produced for $3,000, they were created by a class of undergraduates at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with the hope of aiding farmers in growing their crops.
According to the Associated Press, the technology allows the robots to move around the garden on a base similar to the Roomba vacuum, using a computer to network the machines to cherry tomato plants. The network apparently communicates when the …
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