The 2,547th Meeting of the Society

December 18, 2026 at 8:00 PM

Powell Auditorium at the Cosmos Club

Autonomous Agriculture

AI and Autonomous Robots in the Fields

Manoj Karlee

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

About the Lecture

This lecture will discuss how artificial intelligence, machine vision, sensing, and robotics are being combined to automate agricultural operations in difficult outdoor environments, including autonomous navigation, harvesting, pruning, thinning, pollination, weed control, and other field and orchard tasks, together with the challenges and opportunities involved in moving these systems into broader agricultural use.

About the Speaker

Forthcoming.