Meropy's AI Crop Inspection Robot for Farming
Meropy, a startup specializing in an AI-centric approach to crop monitoring, developed a small robot called SentiV!
Created on January 16|Last edited on January 16
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It's interesting to see how AI is applied to all sorts of professions. I'm familiar with how AI recommends movies or shows, responds to us in a natural language, plays games like Go or Chess, or creates amazing abstract paintings, but in other sectors, AI is still very much in its experimental stages.
Agriculture, for instance, will have a different set of factors to consider as opposed to a business planning on leveraging AI to improve user engagement. Meropy developed a small 2-wheeled robot called SentiV!
Monitoring acres of crops for their health becomes a very tedious task very quickly. Compounded with the costs of running a farm and finding the necessary resources to raise these crops, any improvement to improve crop yield would greatly benefit efficiency, speed, and save some money!
SentiV walks, or rolls, around on 2 wheels made of spindly legs with padding at the ends of each leg. This robot is designed to monitor crops efficiently for diseases, pests, and more. Its unique wheel structure minimizes the amount of damage its wheels can do to the crops. Its body is designed to be adjustable to suit the terrain it covers and it's equipped with vision! Its collected visual data is fed to an AI system that leverages object detection models to detect diseases, weeds, or pests.
SentiV is still in development and it still has a lot to improve upon, but it does showcase one very useful aspect of AI: keeping crops healthy and optimizing agricultural workflows!
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