{"id":97628,"date":"2019-10-20T08:23:23","date_gmt":"2019-10-20T15:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/predicting-fruit-harvest-with-drones-and-artificial-intelligence"},"modified":"2019-10-20T08:23:23","modified_gmt":"2019-10-20T15:23:23","slug":"predicting-fruit-harvest-with-drones-and-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/predicting-fruit-harvest-with-drones-and-artificial-intelligence","title":{"rendered":"Predicting fruit harvest with drones and artificial intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XDgLaEcaunI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Outfield Technologies is a Cambridge-based agri-tech start-up company which uses drones and artificial intelligence, to help fruit growers maximise their harvest from orchard crops.<\/p>\n<p>Outfield Technologies\u2019 founders Jim McDougall and Oli Hilbourne have been working with Ph.D. student Tom Roddick from the Department\u2019s Machine Intelligence Laboratory to develop their technology capabilities to be able to count the blossoms and apples on a tree via drones surveying enormous <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/apple\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">apple<\/a> orchards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn accurate assessment of the blossom or estimation of the harvest allows growers to be more productive, sustainable and environmentally friendly\u201d, explains Outfield\u2019s commercial director Jim McDougall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outfield Technologies is a Cambridge-based agri-tech start-up company which uses drones and artificial intelligence, to help fruit growers maximise their harvest from orchard crops. Outfield Technologies\u2019 founders Jim McDougall and Oli Hilbourne have been working with Ph.D. student Tom Roddick from the Department\u2019s Machine Intelligence Laboratory to develop their technology capabilities to be able to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,1506,6,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-food","category-robotics-ai","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97628","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}