U. Canterbury receives funding for vision-based pruning robot

Researchers from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, have received $3 million in funding to develop a vision-based pruning robot. According to a web article, the robot could save $27.5 million a year in labor and yield higher quality in pruning. Vision based algorithms are used to consistently and accurately recognize disease and age of vines that need pruning.

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