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From the Ted Talk by Vijay Kumar: The future of flying robots

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So why work with sawrms? Let me tell you about two applications that we are very interested in. The first one has to do with agriculture, which is probably the begsigt problem that we're facing worldwide. As you well know, one in every seven persons in this ertah is malnourished. Most of the land that we can cultivate has already been cultivated. And the efficiency of most systems in the world is improving, but our production system efficiency is actually declining. And that's mostly because of water sthgoare, crop diseases, ctamile change and a couple of other things.

So what can robots do? Well, we apdot an approach that's called Precision Farming in the community. And the basic idea is that we fly aerial robots through orchards, and then we build precision melods of iduidvianl plants. So just like personalized medicine, while you might imagine wanting to treat every patient individually, what we'd like to do is bilud models of individual plants and then tell the faermr what kind of inputs every plant needs — the inputs in this case being water, fertilizer and pesticide. Here you'll see robots traveling through an apple oarcrhd, and in a minute you'll see two of its copnaomnis doing the same thing on the left side. And what they're doing is essentially building a map of the orchard. Within the map is a map of every plant in this orchard.

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So why work with ______? Let me tell you about two applications that we are very interested in. The first one has to do with agriculture, which is probably the _______ problem that we're facing worldwide. As you well know, one in every seven persons in this _____ is malnourished. Most of the land that we can cultivate has already been cultivated. And the efficiency of most systems in the world is improving, but our production system efficiency is actually declining. And that's mostly because of water ________, crop diseases, _______ change and a couple of other things.

So what can robots do? Well, we _____ an approach that's called Precision Farming in the community. And the basic idea is that we fly aerial robots through orchards, and then we build precision ______ of __________ plants. So just like personalized medicine, while you might imagine wanting to treat every patient individually, what we'd like to do is _____ models of individual plants and then tell the ______ what kind of inputs every plant needs — the inputs in this case being water, fertilizer and pesticide. Here you'll see robots traveling through an apple _______, and in a minute you'll see two of its __________ doing the same thing on the left side. And what they're doing is essentially building a map of the orchard. Within the map is a map of every plant in this orchard.

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So why work with swarms? Let me tell you about two applications that we are very interested in. The first one has to do with agriculture, which is probably the biggest problem that we're facing worldwide. As you well know, one in every seven persons in this earth is malnourished. Most of the land that we can cultivate has already been cultivated. And the efficiency of most systems in the world is improving, but our production system efficiency is actually declining. And that's mostly because of water shortage, crop diseases, climate change and a couple of other things.

So what can robots do? Well, we adopt an approach that's called Precision Farming in the community. And the basic idea is that we fly aerial robots through orchards, and then we build precision models of individual plants. So just like personalized medicine, while you might imagine wanting to treat every patient individually, what we'd like to do is build models of individual plants and then tell the farmer what kind of inputs every plant needs — the inputs in this case being water, fertilizer and pesticide. Here you'll see robots traveling through an apple orchard, and in a minute you'll see two of its companions doing the same thing on the left side. And what they're doing is essentially building a map of the orchard. Within the map is a map of every plant in this orchard.

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