In the tomato garden of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, robots have supplanted humans. Each robot is outfitted with a robotic arm and a watering pump, while networked sensors help the plants 'request' water or nutrients from their
robotic gardeners. The bases of the robots are re-imagined versions of iRobot’s Roomba.
The idea for the project came from work done by Nikolaus Correll, a postdoctoral assistant working in the Distributed Robotics Lab of EECS Professor Daniela Rus. Rus refers to the system as precision agriculture because of the way robots distribute resources and care on demand.
(via Boing Boing)
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