Robotics at the Campus Farm
A detail of “Spot” the robot, in the background Advaith Balaji and Thor Helgeson, both undergraduate students in Robotics, set up for an in-the-field practice session at the University of Michigan Campus Farm at the Matthaei Botanical Gardens in Ann Arbor, on Tuesday morning, August 20, 2024.
The project is connected to research at the U-M Autonomous Robotic Manipulation Lab (ARMLAB). The primary investigator is Robotics Professor Dmitry Berenson. “This is part of the bigger ‘agrobots’ subteam of ARMLAB that focuses on creating robots and autonomous systems to support farming, gardening and agriculture to create a more sustainable future,” said Balaji. The research focuses on enabling robots to retrieve objects in agricultural environments using semantic memory.
Photo: Brenda Ahearn/University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Communications and Marketing
Robotics at the Campus Farm
A detail of “Spot” the robot, in the background Advaith Balaji and Thor Helgeson, both undergraduate students in Robotics, set up for an in-the-field practice session at the University of Michigan Campus Farm at the Matthaei Botanical Gardens in Ann Arbor, on Tuesday morning, August 20, 2024.
The project is connected to research at the U-M Autonomous Robotic Manipulation Lab (ARMLAB). The primary investigator is Robotics Professor Dmitry Berenson. “This is part of the bigger ‘agrobots’ subteam of ARMLAB that focuses on creating robots and autonomous systems to support farming, gardening and agriculture to create a more sustainable future,” said Balaji. The research focuses on enabling robots to retrieve objects in agricultural environments using semantic memory.
Photo: Brenda Ahearn/University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Communications and Marketing