Agriculture and AI

The Future of Farming (is so dam cool)

Author

Thomas Oh
October 02, 2023

Dear Pineapple Reader,

I want to bring you three awesome videos today about the application of AI in agriculture. It’s typically a combination of different technologies (robotics, lasers), but having AI in the loop to recognize patterns is making these technologies sing

AI meets agriculture with new farm machines to kill weeds and harvest crops

Artificial intelligence is now hard at work on American farms. New machines are used to kill weeds and harvest crops, speeding up the process.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjHGG7eQevY

The farming robots that will feed the world | Hard Reset

One job that has been prohibitively difficult for robots: picking soft fruit. It requires a delicate and dexterous touch, as well as the ability to maneuver around the plants so that the fruit can be accessed from the best angle.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBkhUClyJvs

Precision Agriculture is the real future

This “intelligent sharpshooter” farming robot goes beyond distinguishing crops from weeds. It can track targets that are just a few millimeters in size and dispense droplets of liquid on them

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sV0cR_Nhac0

I really enjoyed this third video in particular. It challenges the stereotype of farmers being resistant to change with a straw in their teeth. Part of the precision agriculture is essentially building a CAD model of the farm. It is almost like creating a video game for farmers with incredible resolution.

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