Manoj Karkee, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Dr. Karkee’s work is in the BSysE Agricultural Automation Engineering research emphasis area. He is primarily interested in Automated and autonomous agricultural machinery systems, field robotics, and machine intelligence for production agriculture; and in Agricultural systems modeling, simulation, and control.
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My Research In the News
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WSU Flower Thinning Robot
April 26, 2022 | Wake Up Northwest on NBC Right Now.comManoj Karkee reports that WSU’s Agricultural Automation group of the Biological Systems Engineering Department has just begun testing their newest robot. The robot is aimed to produce a more stable and efficient pollination and thinning process. The Robotic Pollinator is built with a camera that can detect flower blossoms and determine which need to be pollinated or thinned. Students are currently trying to find the right stage to pollinate the fruit flowers. This comes from trial and error.
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- Three Minute Thesis – Uddhav Bhattarai wins the CAHNRS PhD Competition
- Uddhav Bhattarai is a finalist for best oral presentation at ASABE 2021
- Research Week Celebrates Outstanding Faculty and Staff – Manoj Karkee
- WSU to lead national AI research institute for agriculture
- Robotic crop pollination awarded $1 million grant
- Precision pruning can help machines safely, efficiently harvest apples
- Western Innovator: From Nepal to Robotic Pioneer
- 2019 ASABE Superior Paper Award – Congratulations!
- Online publication labels professor as AI trailblazer
- BSE Faculty Manoj Karkee Named 2019 Pioneer in AI and IoT
- Agricultural robots combine future, farming practices
- WSU, Australian scientists partner to form Joint Center for Ag Robotics
- BSE Faculty Receive 2018 WSDA Specialty Crop Block Grant Awards
- WSU’s apple picking machine provides potential for future orchard operations
- BSE Faculty and Students Attend ASABE 2018 – Student Wins First Place Award
- WSU precision agriculture program ranked in top 25 in world
- Dr. Karkee’s lab funded
- Gap fund awards help get WSU innovations to market
- Aug. 14-17: Global look at agricultural robots, automation
- Boyd-Scott Graduate Research Award 2016
- WSU engineers, scientists prepare to test apple-picking robot
- Robots Picking Apples
- Things that Fly in the Sky
- Manoj Karkee Receives Tree Fruit Harvesting USDA Grant
Email Dr. Karkee
509-786-9208
Fax: 509-786-9321
Ag Tech 105
Biological Systems Engineering
WSU Prosser – IAREC
24106 N. Bunn Road
Prosser, WA 99350-8694
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