How robots touch on the future of agriculture

Added on 05 July 2024

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How robots touch on the future of agriculture

One thing robot researchers are trying to mechanize is the human sense of touch. Sheeraz Athar, one of She’s PhD students, is changing the game by re-thinking how touch works.

Walking into Purdue’s Mechanisms And Robotic Systems (MARS) Lab feels like falling into a child’s imagination of what a lab could be. Giant robotic silver arms with black joints reach out from tables and up from the floor. Wires and 3D-printed bits and bobbles cover the graduate students’ bench space like jigsaw puzzle pieces waiting to be put together. A standing whiteboard is pushed against the far end of the room, scrawled over in doodles of cubes and equations that only an engineer could understand.