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Archive Home > 2009 > April > 13 > You plant the tomatoes; this robot does the rest

You plant the tomatoes; this robot does the rest

By Melissa Trujillo / The Bulletin
April 13, 2009

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — These gardeners would have green thumbs — if they had thumbs.

A class of undergraduates at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has created a set of robots that can water, harvest and pollinate cherry tomato plants.

The small, $3,000 robots, which move....

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