UC Davis students win prize for robot that harvests crops
Kaiming Fu, Yuankai Zhu, Xuchang Tang, Qikai Gao, Shuchen Ye, Hualong Yu, Yihan Wu, Jinduo Guo, Hang Ji and Xiaotan “Molly” Mo. Teams from UC Davis, the University of Nebraska and UC Santa Cruz were presented awards in a virtual ceremony held June 3. The UC Santa Cruz team was honored for creating autonomous navigation soft- ware that weeds plant lines on small or- ganic farms. Team members included stu- dents Oliver Fuchs, Joshua Gamlen and Katherine Rogacheva.
Organized by the AI Institute for Next Generation Food Systems, The VINE, Fresno-Merced Future of Food (F3) Innovation and farm-ng, the inaugural event celebrated student innovators’ contributions to the advancement of agricultural technology. In addition to recognition and prize money—$10,000 for the grand prize win- ner and $5,000 for each category winner— the Farm Robotics Challenge winners will showcase their projects at the FIRA USA 2023 agricultural technology event, set for Sept. 19-21, in the Salinas Valley.
A design team from the University of California, Davis, has won top prize in the 2023 Farm Robotics Challenge for developing a robot to assist farm pickers during harvest. The Farm Robotics Challenge encour- aged students to demonstrate engineer- ing, computer science, critical thinking and business skills. The competition was
based on creating technology to help in real-world farming situations. The grand prize went to a robot from UC Davis named Amiggie. It was designed to assist human pickers by carrying harvest- ed crops and streamlining the unloading process for increased efficiency. The UC Davis team included students
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