When you picture the black and yellow creatures that pollinate plants, you probably don’t think of a Husky, the unmanned guided vehicle by Clearpath Robotics.
But that’s exactly what the team from West Virginia University is using for their current project – a Husky UGV, that is. (See video below.)
After winning NASA’s Sample Robot Return Challenge in 2016, the researchers have continued to put the system to use, repurposing it for another use-case (one of the advantages of having an easily customized robot that runs on ROS). [Read more…] about New farming robot offers different method of pollination