By 2050 we're going to have over 9
billion people on this planet and to
feed that many people we have to do
twice as much food as what we're
doing now. And so we have some things to
really focus on things from a
multi-vector
try to get better at. You know we're
doing different things with plants
with yield precision AG but one thing
we're also working on is automation. So
the robots would go out and and Scout
the farmer's field for him and so they
would look for pests they would look for
disease, weeds things like that and this
would give the farmer a much more
detailed view of the field. And so the
farmer the producer can go out and spray
one certain spot of his field and not
waste the chemical. So scout robots will
be a real help to the producer to be
able to send those out and having
updates sent to his computer or his
phone and on what's really going on with
this field. And another class is behind
me is our crop class so these will
actually do crop work. So they'll plant,
harvest, spray. We're looking at high
sloped hills where tractors can't go and
so these robots will be able to go out
and plant on high sloped hills and so
they're for we're creating new
arable land try to get more yield more
crops more food. Another class is the
UAVs. Dr. Sharda who is working with UAVs
for remote sensing. And to doing a lot of
the same thing as the scouting but
actually from the top of the canopy and
so looking down and trying to 
get a better idea what's going on in the
field.
So all these robots are being used
together to really help them assist the
the producer to make more food and to do
it sustainably.
