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Agriculture: Cambridge Consultants launch autonomous robot to monitor farm crops

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Technology research company Cambridge Consultants has launched a robot to monitor and manage farm crops.

Cambridge Consultants says the mechatronic farming machine, called “Mamut”, is an autonomous robot that explores crop fields, capturing data on health and yield at the level of individual plants and on a massive scale.

By automating data capture, Mamut “gives growers regular, precise and actionable information on their crops, enabling them to predict and optimize yields”, says the company.  [Read more…] about Agriculture: Cambridge Consultants launch autonomous robot to monitor farm crops

Don’t like doing the washing up? This robot could do it for you

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If you don’t like doing the washing up, or there’s simply too much of it to do, then this automated system could be just the thing for you

Cambridge Consultants has developed a prototype automation system that addresses one of the most unloved tasks in commercial kitchens.

Using a combination of strategic business consultancy and expertise in artificial intelligence and robotics, “Turbo Clean” automates the process of clearing food trays and washing dirty dishes.

The automation system is part of a wider business transformation initiative undertaken for a multinational commercial catering company.  [Read more…] about Don’t like doing the washing up? This robot could do it for you

Systems engineering: An insight from a professional systems engineer

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Systems engineering and systems design might sound fascinating to someone interested in the area of technology and building, making, developing, and organising things. 

But even to understand what the terms mean, from a beginner’s or outsider’s point of view, can be difficult.

And to summarise them probably wouldn’t explain things adequately because they really sound like a big jobs, involving a large number of tasks across many different disciplines and departments.

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