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Artificial intelligence is getting down in the weeds. An AI-powered robot that can distinguish weeds from crops and remove them could eventually be used as an alternative to chemical insecticides.
Kevin Patel and Nihar Chaniyara at tech start-up AutoRoboCulture in Gandhinagar, India, have created a prototype of the device, called Nindamani, specifically for cauliflower crops.
The robot is powered by a pre-existing image-recognition algorithm. The duo trained the AI using more than six hundred images of cauliflower crops, in which the crops and weeds in …
source: newscientist.com