{"id":220175,"date":"2025-08-15T04:24:40","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T09:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/agricultural-sensor-detects-crops-by-their-vibrations-offering-an-alternative-approach-for-farm-robots"},"modified":"2025-08-15T04:24:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T09:24:40","slug":"agricultural-sensor-detects-crops-by-their-vibrations-offering-an-alternative-approach-for-farm-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/agricultural-sensor-detects-crops-by-their-vibrations-offering-an-alternative-approach-for-farm-robots","title":{"rendered":"Agricultural sensor detects crops by their vibrations, offering an alternative approach for farm robots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/agricultural-sensor-detects-crops-by-their-vibrations-offering-an-alternative-approach-for-farm-robots2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Farmers might be able to get help tending and harvesting crops using a new sensing technology from Carnegie Mellon University\u2019s Robotics Institute (RI). Researchers have invented a tool called <a href=\"https:\/\/iamlab-cmu.github.io\/sonicboom\/\" target=\"_blank\">SonicBoom<\/a> that can find crops like apples based on the sound they make. The novel technology, still in the early stages of development, may someday be used by farm robots for tasks like pruning vines or locating ripe apples hidden among the leaves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven without a camera, this sensing technology could determine the 3D shape of things just by touching,\u201d said Moonyoung (Mark) Lee, a fifth-year Ph.D. student in robotics.<\/p>\n<p>A paper describing this technology <a href=\"https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/document\/11021384\" target=\"_blank\">appears<\/a> in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Farmers might be able to get help tending and harvesting crops using a new sensing technology from Carnegie Mellon University\u2019s Robotics Institute (RI). Researchers have invented a tool called SonicBoom that can find crops like apples based on the sound they make. The novel technology, still in the early stages of development, may someday be [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,6,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-robotics-ai","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}