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Weed-killing robots and steam beat weeds, pests
AI-trained machines slash labor costs Experimental robots are reducing the costs of hand-weeding by learning the difference between weeds and lettuce. In addition, steam can clear the soil of fungi and spores that cause lettuce and spinach to wilt, reducing the need for chemical herbicides in...
Fennimore receives 2020 EurAgEng Outstanding Paper Award
Steve Fennimore, UC Davis Plant Sciences faculty member and UC Cooperative Extension weed specialist, and colleagues received the 2020 EurAgEng Outstanding Paper Award for the paper, “Crop Signalling: A Novel Crop Recognition Technique for Robotic Control,” which was published...
Vegetable weeder is demonstrated at Weed Day at UC Davis. (photo credit: Bob Johnson)
Robotic herbicide sprayer targets weeds
The Western IPM Center's May 2017 newsletter just came out. The IPM VIDEO OF THE MONTH is on a robotic herbicide sprayer that targets weeds.
New directions for weed science
There are few new herbicide active ingredients in the pipeline now. In the 1970s and 1980s several new active ingredients were introduced every year. There were lots of jobs in industry and weed science was the place to be. I myself was with ICI/Zeneca from 1983 to 1994 in their R&D group....
UC Davis developing faster, more accurate robotic cultivator
From the UC Davis News Service • January 21, 2015 Controlling weeds could soon become more effective, affordable and sustainable for vegetable growers in California and beyond, thanks to a system under development at UC Davis that will help plants communicate with a robotic...
