IIT Kharagpur has designed a robotic system capable of identifying the plant diseases (say vegetables, maize etc.) through the camera-captured image analysis and spraying the appropriate pesticide, as the situation demands. The innovative research was undertaken as part of the multibody project “Development of autonomous multipurpose agricultural robotic platform” funded by the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, Government of India and run by C-DAC Kolkata as the nodal implementing institute along with IIT Kharagpur, BAU Ranchi and KCT Coimbatore.

Further details: https://kgpchronicle.iitkgp.ac.in/iit-kgp-develops-robotic-solution-for-farm-sector/