
Cornell Undergraduates Win Farm Robotics Challenge with Electric Weeding Robot, Take Home $50,000 Prize
A team of Cornell University undergraduates beat 95 competing teams at the Farm Robotics Challenge on May 21, winning first place and a $50,000 prize with an autonomous electric weeding robot. The robot navigates vineyards and orchards without human input, killing weeds using low-level electrical current—no herbicides required. The team is now founding startup Rootline Robotics and has secured an accelerator residency with agtech company Reservoir at its Sonoma, California facility.
Source: RoboHub









