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Cultibotics is about applying robotics to making horticultural best practices scalable and economical.
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Note: Amidst the growing controversy surrounding GMO food crops and genetically engineered (GE) trees, concerns over human health, seed contamination and increased pesticide use abound. Delete the scoop?
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“Imitating the functionality of an insect eye — which is really a collection of many tinier eyes, known as ommatidia — in a camera has been a long sought-after goal for engineers. Now, camera lenses with wide fields of view, such as fisheye lenses, create distortion around the edges of the image. But that could change. In a paper published today [April 29th] in the journal Nature, a team of researchers including a University of Colorado Boulder engineer describes an experimental camera that can take exceptionally wide-angle photos without distorting the image.” Delete the scoop?
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“A golf cart sized robot that can autonomously navigate its way through a field will soon take the work out of weeding for Queensland farmers. The AgBot, a light-weight, driverless buggy, can navigate around a 4000 hectare wheat farm using low-cost sensors, eradicating small weeds and causing minimal damage to soil.” Delete the scoop?
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WASHINGTON – Drones numbering in the tens of thousands will be in the skies by 2030, the Federal Aviation Administration predicts. But where some may fear precision weapons or flying spy cameras, Steve Markofski sees flying tractors. Delete the scoop?
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - “Moving carefully along a row of appletrees, two of Australia's newest agricultural workers check if the fruit is ripe or the soil needs water or fertilizer. Meet "Mantis" and "Shrimp", agricultural robots being tested to do these tasks and more in a bid to cut costs and …”
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“‘Sustainability is a complex issue,’ said Marty Matlock, professor of biological and agricultural engineering at the University of Arkansas. ‘Being sustainable means responding to threats and opportunities in a way that keeps you in business.’ … ‘Sustainability is the land ethic in U.S. agriculture,’ Matlock said during his presentation at the North American Strategy Conference on Animal Agriculture, hosted by the Center for Food Integrity. ‘The land stays and the generations move on,” he added. “We know we’re not sustainable when we go out of business and fail.’” Delete the scoop?
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“No one wants to spend their life doing something that ceases to matter before they've even reached retirement, yet who can say which enterprises will wither and which will prosper, and for how long. We make our choices and take our chances that fate and fashion will be kind to us.” Delete the scoop?
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“When most of us think of Monsanto, we think of genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, as they are most often called. It’s an understandable connection. … But what if the potential health risks of GMOs were actually not the biggest concern when it comes to Monsanto and the handful of other mega-corporations that now dominate the seed industry?”
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Joel Dyer has been covering agriculture since before it was cool. In the age of yellow journalism, he's a true hero! Delete the scoop?
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Environmentalists See Seeds as Key to Agricultural Reform Inter Press Service The project aims to reaffirm the centrality of biological and natural rules against the logic of the agribusiness sector, which relies on genetically modified organisms...
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It's just common sense that the more legacy strains of crop plants we maintain the better our chances of coping with climate change. Delete the scoop?
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Official website for the March Against Monsanto. On May 25, activists around the world will unite to take back our food.
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You may think this is only about GMO food, but there are other, perhaps even more important issues at stake, not least the leveraging of intellectual property to monopolize seed supplies for a growing list of staple crops. Monsanto is merely the largest and most heinous example; Dow, Dupont, and others also merit mention in this context. March if you can, but don't let GMOs and related issues drop off your priority list tomorrow. Every day is March Against Monsanto day. Delete the scoop?
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The claim that GMOs reduce pesticide use -- a main selling point -- should be abandoned by the industry that is gobbling up dramatic pesticide sales growth in response to hardy plant pests rapidly adopting and developing resistance to genetically... Delete the scoop?
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Long-term autonomy in robotics requires perception systems that are resilient to unusual but realistic conditions that will eventually occur during extended missions.
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This general topic, combining sensory modes to create more robust perception, will be very important to the success of any device working under a canopy of leaves, where the bits of direct sunlight that penetrate between the leaves can be very difficult to distinguish from stems and branches. Delete the scoop?
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“A Soldier carries a 61-pound load while walking in a prototype DARPA Warrior Web system during an independent evaluation by the U.S. Army. Warrior Web seeks to create a soft, lightweight under-suit that would help reduce injuries and fatigue common for Soldiers, who often carry 100-pound loads for extended periods over rough terrain.” Delete the scoop?
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By Tory Field and Beverly Bell, June 10, 2013. Source: Toward Freedom “At one point ‘agriculture’ was about the culture of food. Delete the scoop?
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In the past 40 years, 30 percent of the planet's arable land has become unproductive due to erosion, scientists say. Delete the scoop?
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“Professor of Robotics and Intelligent Systems at the University of Sydney, Salah Sukkarieh, is a keynote speaker at the Banana Industry Congress and will tell growers there is significant untapped potential for the use of robots that work outdoors to provide information and support to banana farmers.” Delete the scoop?
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A postgraduate student, Marc-Alexandre Favier, from Bourg-en-Bresse, in eastern France, has completed seven months research at Harper Adams University developing an unmanned aircraft for use in agriculture. … He said his prototype was designed with Scottish sheep farmers in mind, many of whom spend large amounts of time and cover many miles monitoring their livestock. Delete the scoop?
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“B is a revolutionary new remote controlled hybrid car-helicopter with a patent pending design. It is capable of driving across difficult terrain using its large rear drive wheels and when the obstacles become too big, simply take-off and fly over them.” Delete the scoop?
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Completely autonomous navigation from a lab to a coffee shop by our PR2 robot. Learn more at: https://www.stanford.edu/group/sailsbury_robotx/cgi-bin/salisbu... Delete the scoop?
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“As we recently reported, a last-minute rider was slipped into HR 933, the 240-page spending bill signed by President Barack Obama on March 26. The bill was designed as an emergency measure to prevent a government shutdown, but as it turned out, it also made a pretty good Trojan horse for the biotech industry. The rider, which had Monsanto’s fingerprints all over it, was added by a company lackey, Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., and in essence says that if a court questions the approval process of a new genetically engineered crop, or rules that such a GMO crop needs further safety testing, the crop in question can still be sold and grown until the USDA, FDA or any other regulator has finished the research needed to make a final assessment.” Delete the scoop?
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“We are looking for a post-doc to support our NASA "Autonomous Food Delete the scoop?
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“We have a word for the conscious slaughter of a racial or ethnic group: genocide. And one for the conscious destruction of aspects of the environment: ecocide. But we don’t have a word for the conscious act of destroying the planet we live on, the world as humanity had known it until, historically speaking, late last night. A possibility might be “terracide” from the Latin word for earth.”
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If you haven't seen the movie Alien Nation, or maybe even if you have, this might be a good time to see it (again), making a concerted effort to view it as allegory, which it may or may not have originally been intended to be. Delete the scoop?
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From the Campaign to STOP GE Trees, Global Justice Ecology Project, Earth First!
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Today, March 25th, is March Against Monsanto day, but it looks as though the focus of that event is inevitably broadening to encompass all GMOs. Delete the scoop?
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“…the US Navy’s latest unmanned Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) aircraft, the MQ-4C Triton Unmanned Aircraft System, has taken to the skies. This Wednesday, the 47.6-foot (14.5-m) aircraft, powered by a Rolls-Royce AE 3007 turbofan engine, took off from Palmdale, California. It was under the control of Navy and Northrop Grumman personnel, as part of a series of tests to certify the system for fleet operations.” Delete the scoop?
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