IIT Kharagpur develops smart farming robot

In a landmark breakthrough poised to transform Indian agriculture, the department of mechanical engineering at IIT Kharagpur has developed a cutting-edge semiautomatic tracked mobile manipulator cum agricultural robotic system. The innovation, spearheaded by Prof.

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Dilip Kumar Pratihar and a team of PhD and project students, has recently been granted an Indian patent.

Designed to navigate real agricultural terrains and perform precision tasks, the intelligent robot marks a significant leap in agricultural automation. Unlike dronebased systems which often generate noisy image data due to aerial turbulencethe ground-based robot uses camera-based image analysis for accurate plant disease detection, followed by the targeted application of pesticides.