This lanternfly-egg-hunting robot could mean fewer bugs to squish

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This lanternfly-egg-hunting robot could mean fewer bugs to squish
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Making robots that can find and kill harmful pests could be key to decreasing the amount of pesticides used.

TartanPest scrubbing an egg mass off a tree.

Since lanternflies voraciously munch on a variety of economically important crops like hardwoods, ornamentals, and grapevines, getting rid of them before they become a problem can save farms from potential damage. The solution from the team at Carnegie Mellon is a robot arm with a machine learning-powered vision system for spotting the egg masses, and an attachment that can brush them off.

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