By Amy Duke
Visitors to Penn State’s Ag Progress Days, slated for Aug. 11-13, will have an opportunity to experience the latest advances in agricultural robotics and automation through the debut of the FIRA Robotics Village East Coast, an exhibit of cutting-edge technologies designed to address labor shortages, improve efficiency and support the future of farming.
The FIRA Robotics Village is being co-organized by the College of Agricultural Sciences; GOFAR, which is a global accelerator for agricultural robotics and the organizer of FIRA USA; and the Robotics Factory, Pittsburgh’s premier robotics accelerator and a program of Innovation Works.
Located in and around the Exhibit Building on West 5th Street at the Russell E. Larson Agricultural Research Center at Rock Springs, the exhibit will spotlight robotics and autonomous technologies applicable to a wide range of agricultural sectors, including dairy, specialty crops, forestry, greenhouse production and field crop agriculture.
“One of the biggest challenges for robotics startups is getting new technologies in front of the people who can benefit from them most,” said Kevin Dowling, managing director of the Robotics Factory at Innovation Works. “The FIRA Robotics Village allows innovators to demonstrate real-world solutions, gather valuable feedback from producers and build the partnerships needed to move promising technologies from development to deployment at scale.”
Source : psu.edu