AI robot farmer keeping Dutch tulip fields healthy
Machine checking plants for diseased bulbs and removing them before the disease spreads
Theo works weekdays, weekends and nights and never complains about an afternoon spine despite performing hour upon hour of what, for a regular farm hand, would be backbreaking labor checking Dutch tulip fields for sick flowers.
The boxy robot — named after a retired employee at the WAM Pennings farm near the Dutch North Sea coast — is a new high-tech weapon in the battle to root out disease from the bulb fields as they erupt into a riot of springtime color.
On a windy spring morning,…Continue Reading