Robotic gardening: MIT course creates robot-tending tomatoes
Tuesday, March 10, 2009 - 11:14
in Mathematics & Economics
(PhysOrg.com) -- In the middle of MIT`s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) sits a platform of fake grass with tomato plants nestled in terra cotta pots, growing under the light of an artificial sun. But this urban, indoor garden has a twist: the caretakers of the plants are entirely robotic.