Plant-EcoAIR paper wins best paper award at ICRA 2023 workshop “Agri-Food Robotics - From Farm to Fork”
In this joint work with UZH's SpatialGentics lab, we explore the use of robots to survey plant volatiles and detect stress in crops at an early stage.
Congratulations to Christian Geckeler and Sergio Ramos on being selected as winners of the Best Paper award at the workshop "Agri-Food Robotics - From Farm to Fork" during ICRA 2023. Their paper, titled "Plant-EcoAIR: Scalable Airborne Detection of Plant Herbivory using Robotic Volatile Sampling", marks the first steps in utilizing chemical signals for early stress detection in crops, opening up new avenues for precision agriculture beyond visual remote sensing. This achievement is the outcome of a collaborative effort between the SpatialGenetics lab, led by Meredith C Schuman at UZH, and our lab, the Environmental Robotics lab. The project receives support from the Syngenta-Plant Science Center Fellowships.