Emma, an Autonomous Farm Robot, Is Already Deployed in 14 Vineyards and Orchards

A startup has shipped an autonomous robot that scans farms for disease and measures crop yield — and it's already operating in the real world, not just in a demo video.

An autonomous farm robot called Emma is now deployed across 14 vineyards and orchards in California and New York, as its creator @jmoonio announced. Built over 12 months, Emma scans crops, detects diseases, and measures yield — tasks that currently require either expensive manual labor or aerial drones with limited resolution.

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