December 4, 2018 | Connected World Magazine | Carol Stream, Ill. Manoj Karkee, a professor in the Agricultural Automation Engineering specialty area of Biological Systems Engineering has been selected as a 2019 Pioneers in AI and IoT by Connected World magazine. The Pioneers in AI and IoT awards highlight the humane, uplifting, and powerful stories of the IoT (Internet […]
October 26, 2018 | Pullman, WA | Daily Evergreen In a partnership with the University of Technology Sydney in Australia, WSU scientists are working to create agricultural robots to help local farmers and industries maintain and harvest crops efficiently. The partnership started on Sept. 24, said Manoj Karkee, an assistant professor in the biological systems […]
October 1, 2018 | Pullman, WA By Scott Truscott, College of Agricultural, Human and Natural Resources Sciences To speed robotic advancements that help farmers grow food with fewer resources, scientists at Washington State University and Australia’s University of Technology Sydney have partnered to form the new Joint Center for Agricultural Robotics. The first collaboration […]
September 21, 2018 | Pullman, WA Biological Systems Engineering Faculty Lav Khot and Manoj Karkee received Washington State Department of Agriculture Specialty Crop Block Grant Awards. Lav Khot’s project titled “Alternative pest management technologies for tree fruit and wine grapes” was awarded $249,088. Abstract: This WSU team, with agricultural engineering, viticulture, plant pathology and entomology expertise, will […]
August 27, 2018 | Tri-Cities, WA Apple season is here; and did you know a person can pick about 30 apples per minute? But, WSU’s new machine can pick those apples in about a second. The apple picking machine was created by students and faculty at Washington State University. It can be found in […]
August 1, 2018 | Detroit, MI Faculty and Graduate Students from Biological Systems Engineering attended the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) 2018 Annual Meeting. The event took place July 29, 2018 – August 01, 2018 in Detroit Michigan. BSE Faculty included Lav Khot, Troy Peters, Juming Tang, Manoj Karkee, Sindhuja Sankaran, and Qin Zhang. WSU […]
April 13, 2018 | By Seth Truscott, College of Agricultural, Human and Natural Resource Sciences PULLMAN, Wash. – Industry professionals have named Washington State University one of the 25 best colleges in the world for precision agriculture. At WSU, the Center for Precision and Automated Agricultural Systems (CPAAS) http://cpaas.wsu.edu and the Agricultural Technology and Production Management […]
Dr. Karkee’s lab was funded by NSF-USDA Cyber Physical Systems Program to Develop SMART Irrigation System using IoT and Big Data Analytics https://www.wired.com/story/why-robots-should-shake-the-bejeezus-out-of-cherry-trees/ http://www.theledger.com/news/20180122/local-company-advancing-rapidly-on-robotic-strawberry-harvester https://www.asme.org/engineering-topics/articles/robotics/not-far-from-the-tree
December 15, 2016 |by Alyssa Patrick, Office of Research Biological Systems Engineering is among the recipients from the Commercialization Gap Fund (CGF) at Washington State University. Abhisesh Silwal is a PhD student advised by Dr. Manoj Karkee. [read full article in WSU news]
From robots that pick apples to drones that scout pests over cherry orchards, technology is changing agriculture. Advances like these, and many more, will be shared at an upcoming international conference organized by Washington State University scientists.