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Robots on the farm

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Theres always work to be done on the farm, but often its the same work day, after day, after day. Parts of the job must feel a bit like an assembly line. While its impossible to automate farming like many manufacturers have automated their assembly lines, using robotic technology on the farm might not be so far off. Farm robots in the classroom The biological and agricultural engineering robotics team at Kansas State University knows a thing or two about agricultural robots. Theyve won national robotics competitions in each of the last five years. Last years entry is a little four-wheeled machine that drops coffee grains from its bottom at specific locations. It has three little sensors that read where the crops are and keep the machine exactly ten inches. The robot travels the perimeter of the crop area and drops a grain of coffee every inch. Though their robots are only prototypes last years robot is only ankle high and about a foot long the principles they work with are ready for

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