In the Arizona desert, a 70-foot-tall robot is scrutinizing plants that could help feed impoverished countries and fuel American cars
On a green swatch in the Arizona desert, a 30-ton robot is scrutinizing plants that could help feed impoverished countries and fuel American cars., the project’s researchers say. Resembling an oversize scaffold with a box perched in its middle, it lumbers daily over 2 acres of crops including sorghum, lettuce and wheat, its cluster of electronic eyes assessing their temperature, shape and hue, the angle of each leaf.
The Scanalyzer beams this data—up to 10 terabytes a day, roughly equivalent to about 2.6 million copies of Tolstoy’s “War and Peace”—to computers in Illinois and Missouri. Analyzing the range and depth of data generated is possible only with
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