The 2,547th Meeting of the Society

December 18, 2026 at 8:00 PM

Powell Auditorium at the Cosmos Club

Autonomous Agriculture

Robotics and AI for autonomous farming

Manoj Karlee

Scott Professor of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering
Cornell University

About the Lecture

The lecture will explore how artificial intelligence, machine vision, sensing, and robotics are being combined to automate agricultural operations. It will discuss applications such as autonomous navigation, harvesting, pruning, thinning, and other field and orchard tasks, together with the engineering challenges involved in moving these systems into routine agricultural use.

About the Speaker

Forthcoming.